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What would happen to the ability to smell if a drug that inhibited adenylate cyclase were applied to the olfactory epithelium of a vertebrate

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the lack of adenylate cyclase prevents the production of a generator potential, which means no action potential will occur, and no signal would be sent to the brain

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