Cross adaptation, where tasting a high concentration of a substance with one type of taste will influence the ability to detect another type of taste (e.g., eating a very sweet food will make it hard to detect fine salty tastes), demonstrates that:

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All taste receptors are sensitive to all tastes

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Sour and sweet are opposite ends of a continuous spectrum of tastes

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Receptor cells are sensitive to multiple tastes

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Receptor proteins are sensitive to multiple tastes

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Receptor cells sensitive to different tastes send outputs to the same neuron

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Cross adaptation, where tasting a high concentration of a substance with one typ...

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