A fly's sense of taste
27 June 2004
by Richard
Conan-Davies
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Those rather disgusting flies that spend their time poking their probiscuses (a kind of nose) onto our food really are getting a taste sensation like we might get. It is probably even more remarkable for a fly because they taste with all sorts of different parts of their bodies. Now researchers led by Kristin Scott of the University California Berkeley have investigated the genetics of the brains of flys and their sense of taste and discovered they actually taste bitter and sweet things and those signals go to different parts of the brain of the fly. Scott explained that "Taste neurons basically tell the fly whether food is good or bad to eat," |
 Flies seem to have a sense of taste like we do and they have taste senors all over their bodies. |
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