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What Is the Smallest Unit That Can Communicate with Outside?

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  • School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Received date: 2021-02-03

  Online published: 2021-04-09

Abstract

Information exchange between lives exists everywhere. People communicate with each other through words, language, and postures. Bacteria communicate through small organic molecules (quorum sensing). What is the smallest unit that can communicate with the outside world? Do viruses also have the ability to communicate with each other?

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CAO Lianying,LIU Chenguang . What Is the Smallest Unit That Can Communicate with Outside?[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2021 , 55(Sup.1) : 39 -40 . DOI: 10.16183/j.cnki.jsjtu.2021.S1.036

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