Traditionally, the five special senses have been defined as taste, smell, sight, hearing and feeling. However, touch is now considered to reflect the activity of the general senses, and equilibrium, or balance, can be thought of as a new fifthspecial sense. In contrast to the general sensory receptors, most of which are modified dendrites of sensory neurons, the special sensory receptors are distinct receptor cells. They are either localised within complex sensory organs such as the eyes and ears, or within epithelial structures such as the taste buds and olfactory epithelium.
The principle function of the special sensory receptors is to detect environmental stimuli and transduce their energy into electrical impulses. These are then conveyed along sensory neurons to the central nervous system, where they are integrated and processed, and a response is produced.
As part of the Physiome Project, the Eye Modelling Research Group at the Bioengineering Institute is aiming to develop an anatomically based and biophysically accurate integrated model of the eye. The initial stage of this project is to model fluid flow in the mammalian lens. The completed model will includes a range of spatial and temporal scales, from the level of the protein and cell, to the whole organ, and ultimately it will be integrated with other the organ systems in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute's virtual human.
The Nervous System.
in regard to sense organs, what is punctate distribution?
· They are also known as round worms. · They are triploblastic, bilateral, vermiform and pseudocoelomate · They have bodies that are covered in cuticles, which must be molted. · They have Amphids which are cephalic sense organs · Sense organs and sex lips surround their mouths. · They have a unique excretory system but no special circulatory or gas exchange systems. · They are gonochoristic.
Eyes and ears.
Sense organs send information to the brain via afferent pathways of the PNS (peripheral nervous system).
Zebras do not have any special or unique senses.
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A special sense helps grasshoppers tell when you are near. Their sense organs are tiny hairs and they listen with their legs.
Special sensory neurons in sense organs that receive stimuli from the external environment.
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No humans sense organs are better than animals sense organs.
Sense organs is not a word, but a phrase. You would have to list the various organs.
ways of sense organs healthy
a monarch butterflies special sense would be its antennae which at the tip of them has highly sensitive smell receptors. That can pick up traces of chemicals that human nose cannot detect.
Why are sense organs important to living organisms
types of sense organs according to location