EMBRYOLOGY
NERVOUS SYSTEM
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Question
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About how may nerves are in your body
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100 million
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100 billion
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100 trillion
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100 quadrillion
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -For half a century, neuroscientists thought the human brain contained 100 billion nerve cells. But when neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel devised a new way to count brain cells, she came up with a different number-86 billion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The human brain has often been viewed as outstanding among mammalian brains: the most cognitively able, the largest-than-expected from body size, endowed with an overdeveloped cerebral cortex that represents over 80% of brain mass, and purportedly containing 100 billion neurons and 10× more glial cells.
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