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reaction to foreign substances

  • Chemoreception enables animals to respond to chemicals that can be tasted and smelled in their environments. Many of these chemicals affect behaviours such as food preference and defense.
    In chemoreception: Single-celled organisms

    …implies that microorganisms have a chemical sense, but, because they are so small, they are unable to detect chemical gradients by simultaneous comparison of the chemical concentration at two parts of the body. Instead, microorganisms exhibit differential responses to temporal differences in concentration, implying that they have the capacity to…

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  • Chemoreception enables animals to respond to chemicals that can be tasted and smelled in their environments. Many of these chemicals affect behaviours such as food preference and defense.
    In chemoreception: Influence of chemoreception in humans

    …use a knowledge of the chemical senses to modify their own behaviour or physiology and to modify these properties in other animals.

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