Which statement about the perception of different basic tastes is true?
A) Each type of gustatory receptor protein has a different receptor potential.
B) Regardless of how taste information is transduced by different receptors, all taste bud sensory cells release neurotransmitter onto sensory neurons, which send the information to the central nervous system.
C) The five basic tastes result from five different transient receptor potential channel proteins.
D) Gustation receptor proteins are similar in their mode of stimulation, but they synapse with different sensory neurons that stimulate different parts of the brain.
E) The five basic tastes result from five different ions flowing through the same receptor proteins.
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