Ah! I smell cookies baking! I cannot wait to taste them: warm and sweet! Smell and taste are closely related senses. Identify the one statement that does not describe these two senses. A) If an organism does not have a receptor for a particular odor molecule, for that organism, the odor has no smell. B) Both smell and taste use chemoreceptors, which means they are both sensing the chemical environment. C) If one's sense of smell is not functional, then the sense of taste will also not function. D) The senses of smell and taste combine at the back of the nasal passage

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Biology

Kaitlin Spencer

19 January, 09:19

Ah! I smell cookies baking! I cannot wait to taste them: warm and sweet! Smell and taste are closely related senses. Identify the one statement that does not describe these two senses. A) If an organism does not have a receptor for a particular odor molecule, for that organism, the odor has no smell. B) Both smell and taste use chemoreceptors, which means they are both sensing the chemical environment. C) If one's sense of smell is not functional, then the sense of taste will also not function. D) The senses of smell and taste combine at the back of the nasal passage

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Conner Mclean · Answer 1

C) if ones sense of smell is not functional, then the sense of taste will also not function.

You can even prove this right now, close your nostrils shut with your fingers and eat something. You won't taste anything.

Simone Callahan · Answer 2

Answer:The answer to this question is D: The senses of smell and taste combine at the back of the nasal passage.