Taste & Smell

What are the five basic tastes detected by taste buds?

  

•  Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Savory, Fruity

•   Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, Umami

   

• Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Spicy, Umami

•    Sweet, Sour, Savory, Spicy, Salty

How do taste buds send signals to the brain?

• through gustatory cells

•   the olfactory nerve

     

• through direct blood circulation

• muscle contractions in the tongue

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where is the location of olfactory receptors?

the role of the olfactory bulb is to process smell from olfactory receptors

• false

• true

how are taste and smell connected?

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Draw and label the major parts of the tongue

What is the gustatory pathway?

• Where chef gustavo drives to work

• the pathway for smell signals

• the neural pathway for taste to signal from taste buds to the brain

• none of the above

odor molecules stimulate the auditory nerve

• true

• false

How does age impact taste and smell?

How do different chemicals trigger different smells?

• Chemicals trigger taste receptors

• chemicals bind to olfactory receptors

• chemicals bind to the same receptors

• all the above