Sense organ trivia? URGENT!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!

Question

I need trivias about sense organs. I need it in my psychology class. URGENT!!!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

Answer 1

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We have almost 10,000 taste buds inside our mouths; even on the roofs

of our mouths.

Insects have the most highly developed sense of taste. They have taste

organs on their feet, antennae, and mouthparts.

Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth.

In general, girls have more tastebuds than boys.

Taste is the weakest of the five senses.?

?Total number of human taste buds (tongue, palate, cheeks) = 10,000

Number of taste buds on the tongue = 9,000

Height of taste bud = 50-100 microns

Diameter of taste bud = 30-60 microns

Number of receptors on each taste bud = 50-150

Diameter of taste receptor = 10 micron

Diameter of taste fiber = less than 4 micron

Taste threshold for quinine sulfate = 3.376 mg/liter water?

There are four basic tastes: sweet, salty, sour and bitter:

?The surface of human tongues are covered with thousands of tiny bumps called papillae! Your taste buds lie at the base and on the sides of the papillae.

Food dosen't taste as good, when a person has a cold and nose is blocked.

Human sense of smell affects sense of taste! The brain interprets

signals from the nose and tongue.

Most people can tell the difference between 10000 different odours!?

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Answer 2

Sneeze

Sneezes travel out of your mouth at over 100mph

Nosey Affair

Most humans can tell the difference between 10000 different odours

The Dog Nose Best

Sheepdogs can smell 44 times better than humans.

Foot in Mouth

Butterflies taste with their hind feet

Long Distance Trunk

An Elephant's trunk can smell water 3 miles away.

Sweet Sorrow

Cats can't taste sweet things

Ear Trivia. The colour of an egg depends on the colour of the hens ear lobe