ANATOMY OF SENSES: TASTE (GUSTATION)

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Taste Bud

primary organ for taste found mostly on tongue

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chemoreceptors

Taste cells have taste hairs that are ___________

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Basal cells

stem cells that replace dead taste cells

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support cells

physically support the 50-150 taste cells in each taste bud

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taste cells

Taste (Gustation) Pathway:

  1. Taste buds pick up taste and send it to _______________.

  2. Taste cells send taste to _____________.

  3. Taste hairs contain receptors that initiate an action potential which is carried to ________________.

  4. ______ processes taste.

1 = ?

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taste hairs

Taste (Gustation) Pathway:

  1. Taste buds pick up taste and send it to _______________.

  2. Taste cells send taste to _____________.

  3. Taste hairs contain receptors that initiate an action potential which is carried to ________________.

  4. ______ processes taste.

2 = ?

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parietal lobe

Taste (Gustation) Pathway:

  1. Taste buds pick up taste and send it to _______________.

  2. Taste cells send taste to _____________.

  3. Taste hairs contain receptors that initiate an action potential which is carried to ________________.

  4. ______ processes taste.

3 = ?

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brain

Taste (Gustation) Pathway:

  1. Taste buds pick up taste and send it to _______________.

  2. Taste cells send taste to _____________.

  3. Taste hairs contain receptors that initiate an action potential which is carried to ________________.

  4. ______ processes taste.

4 = ?