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Cell behavior is a good example for studying how the machinery of information processing is working in a single cell. Let us see, for example, how an amoeba catches a prey organism. When a ciliate comes close to or touches the amoeba, the amoeba detects it through chemical signals which the prey organism secretes and/or through the sound of beating cilia and/or through a sense of touch. The sensed information should then be judged as to whether it is edible or hazardous. When the amoeba judges it to be edible, the predator tries to catch it by extending pseudopodia just enough to hold the prey, whereas the pseudopodia extending in the other direction retract. The prey organism enclosed by the membrane is then incorporated into the cell and digested. When the amoeba senses an alarm signal, the organism tries to avoid it.
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Kobatake, Y., Ueda, T., Matsumoto, K. (1989). Phase Wave and Perception of Amoeboid Cells. In: Hong, F.T. (eds) Molecular Electronics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7482-8_24
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