NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An axon is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell or neuron that typically conducts electrical impulses. The function of the axon is to transmit information to different neurons, muscles and glands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Axon – The long, thin structure in which action potentials are generated; the transmitting part of the neuron.

Detailed explanation-3: -Each neuron in your brain has one long cable that snakes away from the main part of the cell. This cable, several times thinner than a human hair, is called an axon, and it is where electrical impulses from the neuron travel away to be received by other neurons.

Detailed explanation-4: -An axon (from Greek áxōn, axis), or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences), is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body.

Detailed explanation-5: -The cell body of a motor neuron is approximately 100 microns (0.1 millimeter) in diameter and as you now know, the axon is about 1 meter (1, 000 millimeter) in length.