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Nervous system
Details about Nervous system
Question | Answer |
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What organs are in the nervous system | Brain, spinal cord, and nerves. |
Function of the nervous system | Send electrical impulses/messages form the brain to the body. |
What are neuron | Nerve cells/chemical messengers that send electrical impulses from the brain to the body. |
What is a myelin | a mixture of proteins and phospholipids forming a whitish insulating sheath around many nerve fibers, increasing the speed at which impulses are conducted. |
What are sensory receptors | sensory nerve ending that responds to a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism. |
What are motor receptors. | Somatic motor neurons are the alpha efferent neurons, beta efferent neurons, and gamma efferent neurons. |