Sentences with phrase «between odor molecules»

He draws a distinction between odor molecules and «odor objects.»

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The scientists began by building a database of 1,500 odor - producing molecules, cataloging 1,664 different traits — their size, the strength of the chemical bonds between their atoms, and so on.

C. elegans has the ability to distinguish between hundreds of different odors due to a range of molecules — odorant receptors — on the surface of a cluster of neurons at the tip of its head.