When Lola walks into her favorite Chinese restaurant, she instantly smells delicious food that she cannot wait to taste. As the chemical molecules called odorants enter her nose, they are converted from a physical stimulus to a neural signal in a process called .A. Perception
B. sensory adaptation
C. Sensation
D. Transduction

(D) Transduction

Explanation:

Transduction in the nervous system typically refers to stimulus-alerting events wherein a physical stimulus is converted into an action potential, which is transmitted along axons towards the central nervous system for integration. ... A receptor cell converts the energy in a stimulus into an electrical signal.