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Nervous System

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  • What is the function of the cell body?
    The cell body receives information, it contains the nucleus and cytoplasmic organelles
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  • What is another name for the cell body?
    Soma
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  • What does the cell body contain?
    the nucleus and cytoplasmic organelles
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  • What is an Axon?
    a long nerve fibre that carries electrical messages from the cell body and sends it to other cells
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  • What part of the neuron structure is a long nerve fibre that carries electrical messages from the cell body and sends it to other cells?
    Axon
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  • What are Dendrites?
    short nerve fibers that carry information from other neurons to the cell body
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  • What are the three groups that neurons can be put into?
    Sensory neurons, Motor neurons, and Interneurons
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  • What is the function of Sensory Neurons?
    carry information from the senses to the brain
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  • What is the function of motor neurons?
    carry information from the brain to muscles or glands
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  • What is the function of interneurons?
    carry information between motor and sensory neurons
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  • What is the function of Divergent Circuits?
    carries nerve impulses from one place to several organs
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  • What is the function of Convergent Circuits?
    carries impulses from several places to one organ
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  • When neurons connect to each other, what is it called?
    a circuit
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  • What are the four basic elements involved in the Interaction Function?
    stimuli, receptors, coordination centers, and effectors
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  • What are stimuli?
    any changes in the environment that are detected by an organism
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  • what are receptors?
    Located in the sense organs that detect stimuli and send information to the nervous system
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