GENERAL HISTOLOGY

NERVOUS

NEURONS TYPES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An impulse traveling through your nervous system is most similar to:
A
a feather floating on the breeze
B
a noise traveling through the air
C
an electric signal traveling through a series of telephone lines
D
a truck driving down an interstate highwsay
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Nerve impulses are signals carried along nerve fibers. These signals convey, to the spinal cord and brain, information about the body and about the outside world. They communicate among centers in the central nervous system and they command your muscles to move. Nerve impulses are electrochemical events.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct outline for the sequence of transmission of an electrical impulse through a neuron is dendrites, cell body, axon, axon terminal.

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