Todd and Viola Are Out on Their First Date at a Nice

question 55

Multiple Choice

Todd and Viola are out on their first date at a nice restaurant. Viola is proud of having a very sensitive palette and is actually a supertaster. Todd, on the other hand, does not know much about cooking, or eating for that matter, and is a medium taster.
-On their date,Todd orders a fish dish with a very tangy scent.Once the dish is served in front of him,he proclaims that his nose is now dead and will never be able to smell anything again.Viola laughs and tells him not to be so dramatic because____ are replaced every couple of _____.

• A) olfactory cilia; months
• B) olfactory axons; weeks
• C) olfactory cilia; weeks
• D) olfactory axons; months

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