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chemoreception and taste you uber noob!

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chemoreception and taste you uber noob!

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adaption, adoption, cooption, eruption, gumption, sorption

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abruption, deception, exception, exemption, inception, irruption, reception

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absorption, adsorption, ascription, assumption, conception, conniption, corruption, decryption, desorption, disruption, encryption, excerption, miscaption, perception, preemption, redemption, resorption, resumption, subreption

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consumption, contraption, description, inscription, presumption, subsumption

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apperception, conscription, incorruption, interception, interruption, prescription, proscription, reconception, subscription

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chemisorption, contraception, malabsorption, misassumption, misconception, misperception, preconception, redescription, transcription

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anticorruption, chemoreception, misdescription, nonconsumption, photoreception, postconception, proprioception, superscription

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circumscription, intussusception, nonprescription, overconsumption

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mechanoreception, mistranscription, overprescription, oversubscription

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Paul E. Dowell is a self-published author who has written several books in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Some of his works include "The Other Side of the Gate" and "Legends of the Four Races."

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/299124/Jacobsons-organ


an organ of chemoreception that is part of the olfactory system of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, although it does not occur in all tetrapod groups. It is a patch of sensory cells within the main nasal chamber that detects heavy moistureborne odour particles. Airborne odours, in contrast, are detected by the olfactory sensory cells located in the main nasal chambers. Some groups of mammals also initiate a behaviour known as the flehmen response, in which the animal facilitates the exposure of the vomeronasal organ to a scent or pheromone by opening the mouth and curling the upper lip during inhalation.

This organ was named for its discoverer, Danish anatomist Ludvig Levin Jacobson, in 1811. It is a paired structure; in the embryo stages of all tetrapods, each half arises as an evagination of the floor of a nasal sac. In fully developed crocodilians, turtles, birds, cetaceans, and many advanced primates, this structure is absent or substantially underdeveloped. For most tetrapods that possess a Jacobson's organ, ducts connect the organ directly to the nasal cavity; however, in squamates (lizards and snakes) each organ opens on the roof of the buccal cavity (mouth). The tongue carries odour particles from the outside to the vomeronasal openings on the roof of the mouth, and the particles then move into the vomeronasal organ. After these particles reach the organ, some of the chemical compounds they contain bind to receptor molecules, and sensory messages are sent to the brain.

The Jacobson's organ is useful in the process of communicating chemical messages, such as readiness for sexual activity, between members of the same species. The organ also helps snakes hunt and track their prey. Much evidence suggests that this organ may also be involved in the detection of chemical signals related to aggression and territoriality. See also chemoreception.

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Veterinarians don't really communicate with animals - they read the animal's body language to understand what the animal is conveying and then responding appropriately. A good veterinarian with a strong foundation in understanding how to read an animal's body language may appear to be communicating, but it's simply acting and reacting appropriately to the animal's perception of the situation.

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