## Metadata - Author: [[Dayon Kang]] - Full Title: Picky Eater or Genetically Repelled? - Category: #articles - Summary: Whether cucumbers are great or disgusting is a surprisingly popular debate. Many claim that cucumbers are repugnant, bitter, slimy, and overall inedible, and have, as a result, been called picky eaters. However, the science of genetics tells us that these opinions are encoded in their genes. Specifically, the genes bi-1, which make fruit and foliage... - URL: https://fisherald.com/picky-eater-or-genetically-repelled/ ## Full Document [[Reading/Readwise/Full Document Contents/Articles/Picky Eater or Genetically Repelled|See full document content →]] ## Highlights - When it comes to cucumbers, the gene [TAS2R38](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAS2R38) (taste 2 receptor member 38), located on chromosome 7, is known to be responsible for their repugnance. This gene produces the protein TAS2R38, which functions as a receptor to recognize a wide variety of bitter compounds ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7k4jcgm50p2dyjmj1qwejeg)) - When it comes to cucumbers, the gene [TAS2R38](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAS2R38) (taste 2 receptor member 38), located on chromosome 7, is known to be responsible for their repugnance. This gene produces the protein TAS2R38, which functions as a receptor to recognize a wide variety of bitter compounds. They are a kind of bitter taste receptors, [TAS2Rs](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/5726), which are located in the taste cells on the tongue. Everyone inherits two copies of this gene, the alleles PAV and AVI, which encode bitter-tasting proteins on the taste receptors. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h7k4jpa9d5pn6rcv1ydk2nz3))