Flee 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 32
/fliː/ (verb)
to run away or escape from any source of danger, take flight, fly, abscond, bolt
These observations opened the door to identifying the actual neurons that determined whether the fly would flee or freeze. Using state-of-the-art genetic tools, the team found a single pair of neurons important for the flies’ defensive behaviours. “It was quite incredible. There are hundreds of thousands of neurons in the brain of the fly, and among all of those, we found that freezing was controlled by two identical neurons, one on each side of the brain”, she explains.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/
Noun: fleer
Adjective: fleeing
