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Do bacteria have intelligence? How do they find their food?

Answer

Bacteria have no brain, but on the surface of a bacterial cell there are receptors for different chemicals.

This means that they can tell which way to travel by comparing, chemically, how many of those receptors have things that they like - or dislike - attached.

The bacteria assume that the side with the most 'good' receptors filled is closest to their food. They use this as a guidance mechanism to control where they go.

Bacteria travel towards desirable chemicals, or away from toxic ones, using a tail called a flagellum. This is like a propeller, powered by a protein 'motor'.

When the 'motor' burns energy it causes the protein to change shape, quickly spinning the long 'tail' part. This lets bacteria move so quickly that one species - Bdellovibrio - are officially the world's fastest swimmers, travelling up to sixty times their body length in each second!

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Here we see this anomaly, “they do this, they do that” the real question is how do they do stuff, what triggers them to act, what if any cognitive processes are involved?

It does actually explain how, using chemical receptors, bacteria can resolve the origins of good and bad things and use this information to react accordingly. 

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