One Reason Why We Have Difficulty Tasting Low Concentrations of a Bitter

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Multiple Choice

One reason why we have difficulty tasting low concentrations of a bitter chemical is that:

• A) we have dozens of different types of bitter receptors.
• B) bitter receptors are located only on the back of the tongue.
• C) bitter receptors have axons with very slow conduction velocities.
• D) each bitter receptor responds to a wide variety of chemicals.

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