Sentences with phrase «detecting sense organ»
To see if any other receptors existed, Rodriguez's team took tissue from the vomeronasal organ — a pheromone - detecting sense organ found in the nasal cavity of mice, and some other mammals — and searched for genes expressing other possible smell receptors.
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The lateral line is a sense organ that runs along the sides of most fish and enables them to detect changes in water pressure.
They are venomous, can grow to several metres long and will be on to you long before you know they are there, sensing your body heat with a pair of highly sensitive infrared - detecting organs that sit just below their eyes.
These highly sensitive artificial sense organs can reliably detect gases of all kinds, from toxic carbon monoxide to carcinogenic organic compounds, and can determine their concentrations quantitatively.
As for the «ears» — over on Deep Sea News, Dr. Craig McClain explains that those are really rhinophores, organs that help the sea slug sense chemicals dissolved in the water and also detect changes in currents.