Quorum Sensing

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Across
  1. 2. AI-2 ____ autoinducers in interspecies communication.
  2. 9. Adheres to the body.
  3. 11. Pathogenicity is determined by virulence _____.
  4. 13. Ability of a microbe to navigate.
  5. 14. "Talk" with the animal/plant host.
  6. 15. Molecule signalers allowing communication.
  7. 17. Quorum sensing not activated in _____ density.
  8. 18. Sent out of the population to look for other colonization sites.
  9. 20. Ability of microbe to cause disease/damage.
  10. 21. Gram-_____ uses AHL autoinducers to bind to other bacteria.
Down
  1. 1. Resists host immunity in low-density bodies.
  2. 3. "Talk" with the same species.
  3. 4. 8-10 autoinducer amino acid _____ called oligopeptides in Gram-positive bacteria.
  4. 5. _____ sensing allows bacteria to act as one body.
  5. 6. High-density population can _____ in host body.
  6. 7. Substance used to sustain bacteria.
  7. 8. Scouts grow _____ before scouting.
  8. 10. "Talk" with foreign species.
  9. 12. Bacteria is _____lingual.
  10. 16. Virulence includes the ability to _____ tissue.
  11. 19. Low _____ is better for host colonization.