Special Senses

Question 1

What are the five special senses?

Answer 1

1. Taste
2. Smell
3. Sight
4. Hearing
5. Balance

Question 2

What is another word for the sense of taste?

Answer 2

Gustatory

Question 3

Where are the sensors for taste?

Answer 3

Taste buds

Question 4

What type of receptors process soluble chemicals w special “hair cells” to generate the different sensations of taste? (sweet sour salty bitter)

Answer 4

Chemoreceptors in the tatse buds

Question 5

How are the old factory and gustatory (taste) senses associated?

Answer 5

Stimulated by the same chemicals

Question 6

What term is used to describe an animal with a larger, more developed area for olfaction sense?

Answer 6

Macrosmatic (canine)

Question 7

What term would be used to describe an animal with a smaller area for the processing of olfaction sense?

Answer 7

Microsmatic (primates)

Question 8

What term is used to describe an animal that is lacking in the sense of olfaction?

Answer 8

Anosmatic (Walrus)

Question 9

Olfactory sense is processed by the same type of chemoreceptors as gustatory/ taste sense. Where are these olfactory chemoreceptors located?

Answer 9

In the Epithelium of the Naso cavity/ respiratory tract