Gap Fill - Insect Pain - Level 1

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Research shows that feel pain, but not like human pain. The of the research report said we don't think insects feel pain. He said insects can sense and avoid things they think will be . The author said: "We knew that insects could sense 'pain' but what we didn't know is that an could lead to -lasting hyper-sensitivity...in a way to human patients' ."

The researchers looked at fruit flies. The damaged one on fruit flies and let it heal. After the leg healed, the flies were sensitive. They tried to protect legs. The flies remembered the . This changed their . An injured insect becomes more sensitive it dies. The researcher wants to do more research to understand humans feel pain. He wants to make to stop pain.

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