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A sense organ is any organ that an animal
uses to gain information about its
surroundings. All sense organs have
specialized receptors (such as light
receptors in the eye) and some means of
translating their response into a nerve
impulse that travels to the brain. The main
human sense organs are the eye, which detects
light and colour (different wavelengths of
light), the ear, which detects sound
(vibrations of the air) and gravity, the
nose, which detects some of the chemical
molecules in the air, and the tongue, which
detects some of the chemicals in food, giving
a sense of taste.
Subject by: Shaun Jay