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Can cats taste sweet things?

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According to Scientific America, cats lack 247 base pairs of the amino acids that make up the DNA of the genes of the sweet receptor.

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Some scientists have long suspected that cats, which are strict carnivores, are "sweet blind." Now there's proof: cats lack the receptor for sweetness.

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