Why do we have tastebuds on our tongue and not on our teeth – Ecosystems Zone

Question: Why do we have tastebuds on our tongue and not on our teeth
- Keywords:
  tastebud,
  teeth,
  tongue
Asked by rabbit75 to Joanna on 23 Jun 2016.
- Joanna Bagniewska answered on 23 Jun 2016:
  
  I think maybe because we lose teeth throughout our lives, and we don’t lose our tongue? Also, we can stick out the tongue to taste something, but cannot stick our teeth out…
  It’s a tough question!

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