Question

From the smell of the clothes of your family members can you say whom do they belong to? Try to recognize the clothes of any two members of your family in this way.

Answer 1

Hint: Humans have five essential senses namely touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste. The sensing organs connected with each sense transmit signals to the brain to help us feel and understand the world around us.

Complete Answer:
- Olfaction, or sense of smell, is the mechanism of developing a sense of smell. It happens when an odour binds to a receptor in the nose, sending a signal via the olfactory system. There are around 400 smelling receptors.
- So, all human beings have a sense of smell, which makes it easy for us to differentiate between various types of smell inside our family and house too.
- In a family, it is easy for a kid to identify the clothes of their parents easily. It’s usually or always the father who goes to work and comes home after a tiresome work and sweat all day. So, it’s easy to identify his shirt since it would smell unpleasant.
- Similarly, when your mother cooks at the kitchen, it is a common occurrence that your mom’s dress will have some food smell, maybe due to some spilling of food on her dress. By this way, we can identify the clothes of our family members. A human being loses his sense of smell only during some sickness.

Note: Humans could be able to detect more than 1 trillion scents. Dogs are known as good smellers, but evidence shows that people are almost as nice as a man's best buddy. In humans and other mammals, olfactory sensory nerves are sensed in the olfactory epithelium.