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Taste is 80% smell. the relationship between smell and taste is evidenced by the fact that both sensations are a type of __________.

a. chemoreception
b. baroreception
c. mechanoreception
d. photoreception

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The answer is A, chemoreception!

The chemoreceptors of taste and smell are closely related ; in fact one receptor type, the Lewis acid receptor is common to both the tatse (gustatory) and smell (olfactory) modalities! ☻
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