Taste + smell

• what are taste buds

  cluster of nerve endings
• where are taste buds mainly found

  all over tongue
• where else are taste buds found

  soft palate

  epiglottis
• by what nerve does taste buds send information to brain

  facial nerve
• what happens to the tastebuds of older animals

  have less tastebuds working
• sensory nerve endings in mucus membrane cover turbinate bones to detect dissolved substances in air
• sensory fibres run straight through olfaction
• where is jacobson organ found

  roof mouth
• which species is jacobson organ well developed

  snakes
• what is flehmens

  behaviour of olfaction reflex where animal exposes mucus membrane by jacobson organ to allow pheromones to be aspired