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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #50235 Flies and Mosquitos
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Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine meticulously counted brain cells in fruit flies and three species of mosquitos, revealing a number that would surprise many people outside the science world. The insects’ tiny brains, on average, have about 200,000 neurons and other cells, they say. By comparison, a human brain has 86 billion neurons, and a rodent brain contains about 12 billion. Even though these brains are simple (in contrast to mammalian brains), they can do a lot of processing, even more than a supercomputer. They enable the insects to navigate, find food and perform other complicated tasks at the same time.

According to this passage, we can know that fruit flies __

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