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Taste

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Taste is the transduction of dissolved chemicals by receptors detecting sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami.

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A bitter compound triggers receptors that produce rejection before any learning has occurred.

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Taste receptors are not arranged in a tongue map by region. That diagram is a long-corrected error.

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