4.3 - Types of Neurons

Question 1

motor neurons

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Answer 1

neurons that communicate messages from the CNS to the particular muscles that an organism intends to move at any particular moment

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Question 2

sensory neurons

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Answer 2

neurons that carry sensory information from the body and from the outside world into the CNS

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Question 3

interneurons

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Answer 3

neurons that transmit information between motor and sensory neurons and the CNS

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Question 4

terminal buttons

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Answer 4

bulb-like structures at the end of the axon that release neurotransmitters

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Question 5

neural pathways

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Answer 5

bundles of neurons that provide connections between one part of the nervous system and another

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