A woman carries a mutation in one of the genes encoding olfactory sensory receptors; however, her gustatory sensory receptors appear normal. What would you predict regarding this woman's sense of taste and smell?

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Emilee Moon

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15 April, 16:43

A woman carries a mutation in one of the genes encoding olfactory sensory receptors; however, her gustatory sensory receptors appear normal. What would you predict regarding this woman's sense of taste and smell?

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Kassandra Bernard · Answer 1

Given how these signals are processed, the woman would have a poor sense of both taste and smell.

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A woman carries a mutation in one of the genes encoding olfactory sensory receptors; however, her gustatory sensory receptors appear normal. What would you predict regarding this woman's sense of taste and smell?

Given how these signals are processed, the woman would have a poor sense of both taste and smell. Taste and smell are more complicated than we know, working together, and alone, these senses can have big impacts on everything, food tastes different when the sense of smell is impaired.

Smell depends on sensory receptors that respond to airborne chemicals, Olfactory receptors are able to detect air-borne odor molecules that enter the nasal cavity and bind to olfactory receptors and human nose has roughly 400 types of scent receptors that can detect at least 1 trillion different odors