Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physiological response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus.
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- noun the
physiological response of asense organ to achemical stimulus
Etymologies
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chemo- + reception
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Examples
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For his doctorate he studied how chemoreception mediates gregarious settlement of barnacles.
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Ionotropic and metabotropic mechanisms in chemoreception: 'chance or design'?
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Some tardigrades have light-sensitive eye spots and anterior cirri for chemoreception.
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Some tardigrades have light-sensitive eye spots and anterior cirri for chemoreception.
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And also, as an origin and/or elaboration of the receiving end, sensory processes of chemoreception.
Pharyngula 2009
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And also, as an origin and/or elaboration of the receiving end, sensory processes of chemoreception.
Pharyngula 2009
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