Taste and Smell

Question 1

Gustation

Answer 1

taste, use chemoreceptors

Question 2

Olfaction

Answer 2

smell, use chemoreceptors

Question 3

Olfactory epithelium

Answer 3

the main organ for smelling, small yellowish patch on the roof of the nose, contains millions of olfactory sensory neurons. There is mucus just beneath the olfactory epithelium where the particles of things bind and dissolve and activate a specific receptor

Question 4

Olfactory bulb

Answer 4

this is the part in the brain that the axons travel through to get to another part in the brain

Question 5

Olfactory sensory neurons

Answer 5

each neurons has receptors for just one kind of smell

Question 6

Fungiform papillae

Answer 6

projections on tongue that make it look rough, mushroom shaped

Question 7

Taste bud

Answer 7

nestled inside of a lingual papillae, have a short lifespan of around 10 days, synapse with neurons to send sensory information to the facial nerve, the glossopharyngeal nerve, and the vagus nerve aka the sensory cortex

Question 8

Gustatory taste epithelial cells

Answer 8

these are the taste bud cells that actually do the tasting

Question 9

Basal cells

Answer 9

these are the taste bud cells that a new and waiting to replace the gustatory cells

Question 10

Tastant

Answer 10

food particle

Question 11

Types of lingual papillae

Answer 11

fungiform, foliate, filiform, and vallate or circuvallate

Question 12

foliate papillae

Answer 12

looks like a leaf, has taste buds

Question 13

Filiform papillae

Answer 13

string shaped, do not have taste buds, used to move things around

Question 14

Vallate or circumvallate papillae

Answer 14

Has large grooves around the middle with taste buds