Cooperation

Examples of Cooperation in the following topics:

• Cooperation Among Microorganisms

  • Cooperative behavior, includes mutualism and altruism, benefits one party while the other performs a certain behavior.
  • A cooperative behavior benefits one party while the other performs a certain behavior or takes a particular action.
  • In microbial systems, there are two main types of cooperation, altruism and mutualism.

• Elements of Life

  • Since replication is accomplished in modern cells through the cooperative action of proteins and nucleic acids, the major schools of thought about how the process originated can be broadly classified as "proteins first" and "nucleic acids first. " The principal thrust of the "nucleic acids first" argument is as follows:

• Immunoassays for Disease

  • All work cooperatively to eliminate immunogenic foreign substances from the body.

• Tests That Differentiate Between T Cells and B cells

  • These two cell types can function independently or cooperatively to defend the body against pathogens.

• Starvation-Induced Fruiting Bodies

  • In these fruiting bodies, the bacteria perform separate tasks; this type of cooperation is a simple type of multicellular organisation.

• Biofilms

  • Bacteria living in a biofilm usually have significantly different properties from free-floating bacteria of the same species, as the dense and protected environment of the film allows them to cooperate and interact in various ways.

• Prions

  • This problem does not arise if PrPSc exists only in aggregated forms such as amyloid, where cooperativity may act as a barrier to spontaneous conversion.

• Repression of Anabolic Pathways

  • Two monomers (of four total) cooperate to bind each DNA operator sequence.