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Flashcards by Alyssa Cronin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alyssa Cronin
about 3 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Dendrites | receive incoming information from other neurons and transmit it to the cell body |
| Axon | transfer information over distance in the nervous system |
| Myelin sheath | fatty cover that protects the axon -leaves gaps where the membrane of the axon is exposed |
| Nodes of Ranvier | Gaps between myelin sheath that speeds transmission of electron signal allow nutrients to enter and waste product to leave the axon |
| Synapses | allows transmission of impulses occurs at tiny gap between axon terminal and a dendrite known as synaptic gap |
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