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Describe the common mechanism of action of molecules that taste sweet umami and bitter

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Chemicals that have sweet, bitter, and umami tastes have exactly similar intracellular signaling molecules. It is composed of g proteins attached receptors and is precisely the equivalent second messenger pathways that transmit signals to the afferent axons. The gustatory axons distribute the taste to the brain separately.

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