Gustation Anatomy
The part of the brain that processes taste.
What is the gustatory cortex?
The part of the brain that processes smell.
What is the limbic region?
True or False: Different taste receptors are separated into different parts of the tongue?
An animal that has smell cells that are 100 times larger than humans.
What are dogs?
These two determine the flavor of food.
What are taste and smell?
The bumps on the tongue.
What is papillae?
The condition in which one loses their sense of taste.
What is ageusia?
The percentage of taste that is smell?
What is 75%?
What are women?
The full form MSG.
What is monosodium glutamate?
What are taste buds and taste pores?
Another name for the olfactory system.
What is the olfactory apparatus?
What is umami, sour, bitter, sweet, and salty?
The condition in which one cannot smell.
What is anosmia?
The way to take away unpleasant flavor in food.
What is to hold the nose?
The part of the tongue that receive/interpret flavor.
What are chemoreceptors?
The tissue that is covered in chemoreceptor cells that detect odor molecules.
What is the olfactory epithelium?
What is false?
The number of different chemicals our nose can distinguish.
What is about 4000?
A person who tastes certain flavors more strongly than other people.
What are supertasters?
The nerve that carries sensory information to the Central Nervous System.
What are the sensory nerves?
The area in the nose lined with mucous membrane and nose hairs.
What is the nasal cavity?
The 4 taste buds we have.
What is bitter, sour, salty, and sweet?
The number of smell receptors a dog has.
What is 300 million?
This is why food with stronger flavor tastes good to the elderly.
What is that elders have weakened senses of smell and taste?