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Design Your Own Experiment

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If you are interested in the senses of taste and smell, there are many other possible experiments and projects. Because taste has a genetic component, you can try repeating Experiment 1 for groups of families. Compare family members' reactions to different tastes and their number of taste buds to each other. Then compare that data to a different family. Are members of one family more likely to all be either tasters, nontasters, or supertasters?

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1. Introduction
2. How taste works
3. Smells at work: Lime or lemon?
4. All senses are not created equal
5. Experiment 1 - Supertasters: Is there a correlation between the number of taste buds and taste perception?
6. Experiment 2 - Smell and Taste: How does smell affect the sense of taste?
7. Design Your Own Experiment