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    The gustatory system, also known as the sense of taste, is responsible for flavor perception. Taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue, chemically react to substances in the mouth. Adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds total, located in the walls and grooves of papillae on the tongue. Taste serves several functions, including signaling the nutritional qualities of food, detecting toxins to keep us safe, and linking our external environment to internal needs like hunger and thirst.

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    The gustatory system, also known as the sense of taste, is responsible for flavor perception. Taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue, chemically react to substances in the mouth. Adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds total, located in the walls and grooves of papillae on the tongue. Taste serves several functions, including signaling the nutritional qualities of food, detecting toxins to keep us safe, and linking our external environment to internal needs like hunger and thirst.

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    Draw The Tongue and Label The Location of The Different Taste Receptors

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    The gustatory system, also known as the sense of taste, is responsible for flavor perception. Taste receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue, chemically react to substances in the mouth. Adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds total, located in the walls and grooves of papillae on the tongue. Taste serves several functions, including signaling the nutritional qualities of food, detecting toxins to keep us safe, and linking our external environment to internal needs like hunger and thirst.

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    1. Draw the tongue and label the location of the different taste receptors.

    2. Discuss the sense of taste

    The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste
    (flavor). Taste is the perception produced or stimulated when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with taste
    receptor cells located on taste buds in the oral cavity, mostly on the tongue. The taste buds are located in the walls and
    grooves of the papillae. Adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 taste buds in total. The sensory cells in the taste buds are
    renewed once a week. Taste has a number of functions: Taste signals the nutritional qualities of the food we are about
    to eat. Taste helps us detect toxins in our foods to keep us safe. Taste links our external environment to our internal
    needs (hunger and thirst).

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