Provisional Cell Ontology

Last uploaded: September 9, 2025
Id http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0050909
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0050909
Preferred Name

sensory perception of taste

Definitions
The series of events required for an organism to receive a gustatory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Gustation involves the direct detection of chemical composition, usually through contact with chemoreceptor cells. This is a neurological process.
Synonyms
sense of taste
taste perception
gustation
taste
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class
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