Because small quantities of powerful explosives can be hidden easily, a sensor that could detect trace amounts of illicit chemicals would be a useful tool. What animal sensory modality is exquisitely sensitive to minute quantities of airborne chemicals? 

Honeybees have an incredible ability to distinguish thousands of different odorant molecules, using their large repertoire of olfactory receptors. A wide variety of different types of chemicals can be detected as odorants -- they simply require olfactory neurons with a receptor that can bind the chemical and transduce that stimulus into a receptor potential.

A. olfaction
B. taste
C. vision
D. hearing
E. touch


A. olfaction

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