Taste and Smell

Question 1

ALthough different the two sensory experiences of taste and smell are

Answer 1

intimately entwined

Question 2

How many taste buds do you have

Answer 2

5000 to 10,000 taste buds.

Question 3

Taste substances stimulate what?

Answer 3

specialized sensory cells and each taste bud consists of 50-100 of these cells

Question 4

Taste signlas in the sensory cells are transferred what?

Answer 4

nerve fibers which send impulses along cranial nerves to taste regions in the brainstem

Question 5

From the cranial nerves to the taste regions, implusels are relayed to

Answer 5

the thalamus and on the erebral cortex for conscious reception of taste

Question 6

Specialized olfactory receptor cells are located whatr

Answer 6

of mucous membrane linig the roof of the nose.

Question 7

Axons these sensory cells pass through perforations in the overlyig bone and elongate

Answer 7

olfactory bulbs lying top of the bone

Question 8

The cilia contain the receptor sites that are stimulated by

Answer 8

airborne odor molecules. These molecules dissolve in the mucous lining in order to stimulate rceptor proteins in the cilia to start the smell response

Question 9

The pattern of activity set up in receptor cells is

Answer 9

projected o the olfactory bulb where neurons are activated to form a spatial organization

Question 10

Impulses created by this stimulation pass to the primary

Answer 10

olfactory cortex at the back of the underside or orbita part of the frontal lobe