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How many taste buds are present on the tongue? Name them. ​

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there are five Taste bud present tongue they are -

  1. SWEET
  2. SALT
  3. SOUR
  4. BITTER
  5. UMAMI

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out of the four type of papillie present on tongue the fungiform circumvallate and folite papillie contain numerous small taste but few such type of Taste but also occur in the mucous membranes of soft palate tonsils and epiglottis all of these days but received taste is normally

each Taste bud is an oval structures formed due to modification of epithelial cells which are situated erect and vertically on the surface long sensory cells and supporting cells are found in this bird is sensory cell is spindle shaped in which a sensory here is found at its free in the century fibre of the facial and vagus cranial nerves are wrapped around the basal and of the gustatory cells each test but open on the epithelial surface through minute taste pore

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