taste organ

All use their elongated snout as a taste organ.

Taste organs can also be found on the tarsi of moths, butterflies and flies.

Catfish have taste organs across their entire bodies, and can taste anything they touch, including chemicals in the water.

Flies and butterflies have taste organs on their feet, allowing them to taste anything they land on.

Fish have quite separate smell and taste organs but, unlike ours, their taste receptors are not confined to their mouths.

Ants taste sugar similarly to us with their mouths and sometimes antennae, but the chemicals in artificial sweeteners do not bind to their tasting organs.

Olfactory and taste organs closely resemble conventional hormonal systems in that they respond to chemical signals by membrane-bound receptors coupled to various second messengers.

A role for cyclic AMP in olfactory and taste organs is well-established, but InsP 3 has also been implicated for detecting certain chemical modalities.

Taste is usually located on the mouthparts of the insect but in some insects, such as bees, wasps and ants, taste organs can also be found on the antennae.

Trattoria dell'Arte, across the street from Carnegie Hall, is a whimsical new Italian restaurant designed by Milton Glaser that raises our most important taste organ to an objet d'art.