specialize

mastery
/ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/verb

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Which meaning of 'specialize' best matches its use in the sentence?

In the lowest orders of being, we find these functions very much blended together, and several of them apparently performed by one simple apparatus; but in proportion as we rise in the scale, we perceive that they are specialized, or separated from each other.