NDLI: Do cells think?

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ramanathan, S. Broach, J. R.
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	A microorganism has to adapt to changing environmental conditions in order to survive. Cells could follow one of two basic strategies to address such environmental fluctuations. On the one hand, cells could anticipate a fluctuating environment by spontaneously generating a phenotypically diverse population of cells, with each subpopulation exhibiting different capacities to flourish in the different conditions. Alternatively, cells could sense changes in the surrounding conditions – such as temperature, nutritional availability or the presence of other individuals – and modify their behavior to provide an appropriate response to that information. As we describe, examples of both strategies abound among different microorganisms. Moreover, successful application of either strategy requires a level of memory and information processing that has not been normally associated with single cells, suggesting that such organisms do in fact have the capacity to ‘think’.
Starting Page	1801
Ending Page	1804
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1420682X
Journal	Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Volume Number	64
Issue Number	14
e-ISSN	14209071
Language	English
Publisher	Birkhäuser-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-05-25
Publisher Place	Basel
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Microorganisms sporulation MAP kinase pathway mating pheromone high osmolarity response stochastic switching logic gate switch-like behavior Cell Biology Biomedicine general Life Sciences Biochemistry
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Pharmacology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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