1 If teams are tied in a category, each team gets an average of the point total. 2  Example: 2 teams tie for 1st place, each gets 11.5 points [(12+11) / 2 = 11.5]  League standings are updated after each day's games, so it's possible to see your score rise or fall in one or more categories each day.
Taste buds, the main receptor for taste stimuli, are located in the papillae scattered throughout the mouth. They are so small that they are visible only with a microscope. A person's tongue has about 10,000 taste buds. The number of taste buds a person has decreases with age, especially after 65 or so.
Via small openings in the tongue epithelium, called taste pores, parts of the food dissolved in saliva come into contact with the taste receptors. These are located on top of the taste receptor cells that constitute the taste buds. The taste receptor cells send information detected by clusters of various receptors and ion channels to the gustatory areas of the brain via the seventh, ninth and tenth cranial nerves. On average, the human tongue has 2,000â8,000 taste buds.