Gap Fill - Brains - Level 5

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The diagram looks like a of art. It is a beautiful, colourful of neurons. The map is known as a . Scientists sliced the fruit fly's brain into 7,000 pieces. These were studied with an microscope. This imaged cells that were four-millionths of a millimetre . The researchers classified 8,400 cell . If the neural pathways were unravelled, they would stretch for 150 metres. The human brain has 86 billion neurons and of connections. It will be many before technology can map .

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