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  2. Taste bud - Wikipedia

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    Taste buds are clusters of taste receptor cells, which are also known as gustatory cells. [1] ... On average, the human tongue has 2,000–8,000 taste buds. [2]

  3. Taste - Wikipedia

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    [1] [4] The exceptions to this is the filiform papillae that do not contain taste buds. There are between 2000 and 5000 [5] taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides and back of the mouth, and in the throat. Each taste bud contains 50 to 100 taste receptor cells.

  4. Special senses - Wikipedia

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    The exception to this is the filiform papillae that do not contain taste buds. There are between 2000 and 5000 [17] taste buds that are located on the back and front of the tongue. Others are located on the roof, sides and back of the mouth, and in the throat. Each taste bud contains 50 to 100 taste receptor cells.

  5. Taste receptor - Wikipedia

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    The diagram above depicts the signal transduction pathway of the sweet taste. Object A is a taste bud, object B is one taste cell of the taste bud, and object C is the neuron attached to the taste cell. I. Part I shows the reception of a molecule. 1. Sugar, the first messenger, binds to a protein receptor on the cell membrane. II.

  6. Tongue map - Wikipedia

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    The misinterpreted diagram that sparked this myth shows human taste buds distributed in a "taste belt" along the inside of the tongue. Prior to this, A. Hoffmann had concluded in 1875 that the dorsal center of the human tongue has practically no fungiform papillae and taste buds, [12] and it was this finding that the diagram describes.

  7. Wild Statistics of Average Human Consumption In a Lifetime - AOL

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    Here's a hint: You'll need to order more than 450 single pie deliveries to fulfill that many slices. Take a stab at how much chocolate the average person eats or how much water the average person ...

  8. Scientists pinpoint the origins of humanity’s love of carbs

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    Humans today have multiple copies of this gene, and the number varies from person to person. ... suggesting that Homo sapiens had a taste for starch long before the domestication of crops shaped ...

  9. Tongue - Wikipedia

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    The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste buds housed in numerous lingual papillae. It is sensitive and kept moist by saliva and is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. The tongue also serves as a natural means of cleaning the teeth. [2] A major function of the tongue is to enable speech in humans and vocalization in ...