Making Scents of Smells

How do we make sense from smells?

Stay tuned for today's creation moment.

And now here's our creation moment host, Ian Taylor.

How many different sense do you think your nose is capable of smelling?

The answer is about 10,000.

Now we know that humans and mammals detect smells by using at least a thousand different

genes.

While these genes are found in every cell of your body, they are active only in your nose.

This discovery says scientists give them their first insight into how smell works.

Before this said one scientist, quote, we had almost no knowledge of the olfactory system

and this really opens up the molecular study of smell in a very fascinating way.

They say that each of the different genes seems designed to respond to a small group

of odors.

As each group of genes does its part, the entire system is able to recognize everything

we can smell.

These genes pass signals from the nerve cells in the nose to a small region of the brain

called the olfactory bulb.

Now that smell genes are identified, researchers say that they can begin to understand how

odors are detected and how the brain interprets those signals.

Our sense of smell relies on a very elegant and sophisticated system.

Imagine 1,000 genes lie at the heart of that system.

Each one of those genes is information, a programmed code that is designed to make sense of what

we smell.

Information, programming and decoding are all terms that have assumed that we have a highly

intelligent creator who designed our sense of smell.

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