Sentences with phrase «different odor molecules»

By giving different odor molecules a place on the yardstick, we can distinguish fine gradations among them.

All this complex signal processing means that we can distinguish among thousands of different odor molecules.

A given receptor can snag a number of different odor molecules, and a given odor molecule can latch onto several different receptors.

Most scents are composed of many odorants; a whiff of chocolate, for example, is made up of hundreds of different odor molecules.

Not exact matches

Each was a different blend drawn from 128 distinct odor molecules.

Dogs can do that because their noses contain 900 different types of olfactory receptors, chemical detectors in cells that respond to many different kinds of odor molecules in particular ways.

Two typical odors — earthy and musty — are caused by to different molecules: geosmin (GSM) and 2 - methylisoborneol (MIB).

It also doesn't explain why odor molecules with very similar shapes give us such different smells; the molecules that gives us the smell of vodka and rotten eggs are almost identical, for example.

They took 128 odor molecules that represented a wide range of smells and started combining them into unique mixtures containing 10, 20, or 30 different components.

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.