What is the function of the axon? to receive information and information into the cell body to store genetic material and act as the metabolic centre of the neuron O to transmit information away from the soma to other neurons to separate one neuron from neighbouring neurons

What is the function of the axon? to receive information and information into the cell body to store genetic material and act as the metabolic centre of the neuron O to transmit information away from the soma to other neurons to separate one neuron from neighbouring neurons

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What is the function of the axon?
to receive information and information into the cell body
O to store genetic material and act as the metabolic centre of the neuron
O to transmit information away from the soma to other neurons
O to separate one neuron from neighbouring neurons

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Watch this video (http://openstaxcollege.org/l/neurotrans) to learn about the release of a neurotransmitter. The action potential reaches the end of the axon, called the axon terminal, and a chemical signal is released to tell the target cell to do something, either initiate a new action potential, or to suppress that activity. In a very short space, the electrical signal of the action potential is changed into the chemical signal of a neurotransmitter, and then back to electrical changes in the target cell membrane. What is the importance of voltage-gated calcium channels in the release of neurotransmitters?
What is saltatory conduction? O The conversion of an electrical impulse into a chemical signal at an axon terminal The movement of an action potential from one cell to another using a gap junction O The way an action potential skips from node to node down the full length of an axon The series of events that convert an electrical impulse into a muscle contraction The process of wrapping myelin around a section of an axon.
In neurons, the direction of signal is always: Up axon to soma (cell body) Down soma (cell body) to dendrites O Up soma (cell body) to dendrites SEP O Down axon terminal to dendrites O Down axon towards axon terminal
Where does an axon potential begin on an axon? O the action-potential initiating hillock (APIH) O the first node of Ranvier O the bouton segmentalis O the axon initial segment (AIS) O the first axon-collateral segment (ACS)
ахon transmits information away from the cell body (centrifugal) and that ends by the terminal arborization. Only axons are surrounded by a myelin sheath. to the cell body (centripetal) and the axon that PROBI NG Ithe ACTIVITY What are the structural constituents of the gray matter, the white matter, and the nerve? Draw a neuron then use the different documents of the activity to determine, on the figure, t location of each part of the neuron in the nervous system. Using docs a, b, and c, draw and label a transverse section of the spinal cord, a cell body, a transverse section of a nerve.
All afferent signals travel what direction? O None of these is correct O Toward a muscle O Toward the CNS O Away from the CNS O Toward a gland
What pathway has signals moving through sensory nerves to the CNS O Afferent O Interneurons O Efferent O None of these is correct O Motor
What is an example of asituation in which the neuroncell body is located in a part ofthe body and its axonalterminal portion is in anotherdistant part of the body? Whydoes this happen?
The CNS receives information about changes affecting internal organs through sensory inputs delivered by. O somatic afferent neurons. O visceral afferent neurons. O somatic efferent neurons O autonomic efferent neurons O interneurons
A post-synaptic membrane O must be cell body membrane. O must be dendrite membrane. O can be either axon or cell body membrane. O can be either axon or dendrite membrane. O must be axon membrane. Neurotransmitters are molecules that cross the synaptic cleft and O either excite or inhibit the postsynaptic neuron. O always inhibit the postsynaptic neuron. O integrate the presynaptic action potential. O are carried along the membrane surface of the next neuron. O always excite the postsynaptic neuron. The likely effect on a neuron of two excitatory signals and twenty inhibitory signals is O confused integration. O transmission of a nerve impulse releasing excitatory neurotransmitters at the next synapse. O prohibiting the axon from firing at all. O transmission of a nerve impulse. O transmission of a nerve impulse releasing inhibitory neurotransmitters at the next synapse.
Which is not true about axons? They arise from the cell body they send information to other cells they contain dendritic spines they recive information from other cells
1) The interior of an axon at rest is negatively charged relative to the outside is positively charged relative to the outside has the same charge as the outside has the same concentration of potassium (K+) as the outside 2) The branch-like portions of a neuron that carries information toward the cell body is the axon. dendrite. terminal button. soma.