smell, balance/equilibrium, taste, hearing, vision - ANS-5 special senses
sensory; head - ANS-special senses use highly specialized __________ receptors
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located in the __________
gustation and olfaction - ANS-two chemical senses
Gustation - ANS-chemical sense involved with taste
Olfaction - ANS-chemical sense involved with smell
chemoreceptors - ANS-Chemical senses rely on special chemical receptors called
____________
chemical; electrical - ANS-chemoreceptors transduce ____________ energy into an
____________ action potential
solution - ANS-chemoreceptors only respond to chemicals in ____________
biologically active; solution - ANS-In order to be ____________ active chemicals must
be in ____________
taste buds - ANS-sensory receptor organs for taste
mucosal/fungiform - ANS-Taste buds are found in the ____________ papillae of the
tongue
soft, pharynx - ANS-Taste buds are also located on the ____________ palate, cheeks,
____________, and epiglottis
genetically - ANS-number of taste buds is ____________ determined
papillae - ANS-gives the tongue grip to help hold food in place
grip; taste buds - ANS-papillae gives the tongue ____________ to help hold food in
place and contains the ____________
circumvallate papillae - ANS-Big bumps in a V-shaped, far fewer than fungiform (7-12 of
them)
front - ANS-fungiform papillae are all over and towards (front/back?) of the tongue
Gustatory Cells
Supporting Cells
Basal Cells
Taste Pore
Gustatory Hairs - ANS-Anatomy of a Taste Bud
- ___________ Cells
- ___________ Cells
- ___________ Cells
- ___________ Pore
- ___________ Hairs
gustatory cells - ANS-Sensory portion of taste bud special sensory neurons
sensory - ANS-gustatory cells function as the __________ receptor
supporting cells - ANS-Most numerous component of the taste bud; surrounds gustatory
cells
gustatory - ANS-supporting cells of the taste bud nurture and protect the __________
cells
basal cells - ANS-Stem cells at base of gustatory and supporting
stem - ANS-basal cells are ________ cells at base of gustatory and supporting
basal cells - ANS-Undifferentiated cells that can become gustatory or supportive cells
since they can rapidly divide
taste pore - ANS-The opening to a taste bud is called a _____
taste pore - ANS-Gustatory hair extends out of the _________ to allow chemicals to
enter
gustatory hairs - ANS-Dendritic extensions of plasma membrane of taste bud, threads
that emerge from the gustatory cells
dendritic; plasma membrane - ANS-gustatory hairs are the __________ extensions of
__________ membrane of taste bud
specific
chemicals; chemicals - ANS-Gustatory cells can be __________ for different stimuli
(all stimuli for taste buds are ___________, they're just different ___________)
7-10 days - ANS-All of the taste bud cells are replaced about every _____-_____ days... [Show Less]