So how does the octopus get food from its mouth past the brain to the stomach? In octopuses, the esophagus, which is a tube that carries our food from our mouths to our stomachs, actually runs through the brain. The structure of the walls of the blood vessels has. The process in which the brain develops what appear to be wrinkles is known as. Little did we know, the octopus head is actually where its stomach is located! Instead, the octopus brain is located right between its eyes and below the stomach. The glio-vascular organization of the octopus brain has been studied by light and electron microscopy. Among other things, scientists did not expect to find as much folding as they did in the octopus brains. In one of my neuroscience classes, my professor asked the class where we thought the octopus brain might be, and we all pointed to the head. In an octopus, the central brain and its approximately 180 million neurons determine what the creature wants or needs for example, it may send an alert to find food. Over 45 of the human genome is composed by sequences called transposons, or the jumping genes, that can move from one point to another of an individual’s genome, shuffling or duplicating. Jumping genes are active in both the human brain and in the brain of two species of octopus Octopus vulgarisms and Octopus bimaculoides. In fact, octopuses can even open jars ( ), and one octopus was so smart that it could open a jar from the inside ( )! A team of international researchers made a startling discovery when they found both the human and octopus brain share the same jumping genes. For example, when we reach out and grab an object, our brain activates our. Our brains directly control our conscious movements.
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Just think of the amazing things octopuses are capable of: In My Octopus Teacher, Craig Foster witnessed the octopus learn (after several dangerous encounters) how to cling to a shark’s back to evade it. These mysterious creatures are known to be incredibly intelligent. The main differences between octopus and human brains are the amount, shape, location, function, brain-to-body ratio, and neuron numbers. In effect, human and octopus brains evolved to have similar learning and memory capabilities in order to survive.
One of the weirdest things I’ve learned in my neuroscience classes has to do with the octopus brain. The arms will wiggle through crevices, contracting or relaxing the muscles. The brain is one of the most fascinating yet lesser understood organs in the body. An octopuss main brain sends commands to its ganglia like search for food. Hi everyone! My name is Maya, and I’m a student at Vanderbilt studying Neuroscience.
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