Reference no: EM132573499

You go to Sylvester's Burgers in Los Osos and order some of their bomb fries. When you eat them, they taste perfectly salty. As you are leaving Sylvester's, you get a big whiff of someone's delicious burger as it is delivered to their table. While walking to your car, you hear the sound of a car honking as it passes on the street. As the driver is honking, you happen to be stepping off a curb. The honking distracts you, and your equilibrium is thrown off momentarily, causing you to fall in the street. Your friend reaches out their hand to help you get back up after you fall. Answer the following questions about how you were able to taste, smell, hear, sense equilibrium, and see all of these sensations around

Regarding Smell:

a. What is the difference between the events of "transduction" and "transmission", regarding sensation?

b. Explain the transduction pathway for converting "burger molecule" stimuli into action potentials.

c. List the transmission pathway for smell, from receptive cell to the primary cortex.

Regarding "Outer ear" Hearing:

a. Explain the transduction pathway for converting the car horn sound wave stimulus (outside of the body), to what the stapes bone does (inside the body).

b. Does this initial transduction pathway occur in air or fluid?

Regarding "Inner ear" Hearing:

a. Explain the transduction pathway for converting events at the oval window to the inner ear receptive cells which stimulate action potentials in the cranial nerve.

b. Does this final transduction pathway occur in air or fluid?

c. List the transmission pathway for hearing, from cranial nerve to the primary cortex.