__________ allow people to smell different aromas and taste sweet, salty, and sour foods.

Chemoreceptors detect chemicals in the environment. They respond to odor molecules in the air, allowing people to smell aromas, and to chemicals in food, allowing people to taste sweet, salty, and sour flavors. Pain receptors detect harmful stimuli, photoreceptors detect light, and thermoreceptors detect temperature.

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