mouth and taste

How many taste buds do we have?

True or False...

We can sense five different tastes?

• True

• False

Our taste buds have how many cells?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

True or False...

The basal Epithelial cell grows quickly- replacing the old or damaged cell in roughly 24 hrs?

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

At the beginning of the lesson, we talked about three things that taste does....

True or False...

Food sometimes does not taste good when our noses are stuffy because the flavors of food are created by a combination of taste and smell?

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Step 1 of the process of taste is....

• When you put something in your mouth and saliva begins to dissolve food

• Molecules of food are dissolved in saliva and taste buds can detect them

• Messages are sent to the gustatory cortex for interpretation

• The brain responds to taste signals by releasing digestive enzymes into saliva and the stomach for digesting food.

Step 2 of the process of taste is....

• When you put something in your mouth and saliva begins to dissolve food

• Molecules of food are dissolved in saliva and taste buds can detect them

• Messages are sent to the gustatory cortex for interpretation

• The brain responds to taste signals by releasing digestive enzymes into saliva and the stomach for digesting food.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Step 3 of the process of taste is....

• When you put something in your mouth and saliva begins to dissolve food

• Molecules of food are dissolved in saliva and taste buds can detect them

• Messages are sent to the gustatory cortex for interpretation

• The brain responds to taste signals by releasing digestive enzymes into saliva and the stomach for digesting food.

Step 4 of the process of taste is....

• When you put something in your mouth and saliva begins to dissolve food

• Molecules of food are dissolved in saliva and taste buds can detect them

• Messages are sent to the gustatory cortex for interpretation

• The brain responds to taste signals by releasing digestive enzymes into saliva and the stomach for digesting food.