Sentences with phrase «specialized anatomical structure»
Scientists have known since the 1950s that dogs and other keen - scented mammals such as rats and rabbits have a specialized anatomical structure in their nasal cavity.
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But it seemed unlikely, because the body coverings were thought to grow differently: Feathers and hair develop from specialized plates of thickened ectoderm — an embryonic cell layer — called anatomical placodes, structures not seen in reptiles.
The current model in neuroscience poses that memory is stored as long - lasting anatomical changes in synapses, the specialized structures by which nerve cells connect and signal to each other.
Despite dolphins» obvious intelligence and social aptitude, anatomical studies of their gray matter revealed an indistinct muddle of neurons, nothing like the specialized, refined structures found in human brains.