Control and Information Processing

The part of an organism that gathers, processes, and responds to information

• central nervous system

• spinal cord

• peripheral nervous system

• nervous system

The basic functioning units of the nervous system are called nerve cells or...

• neurons

• nervous system

• spinal cord

• receptors

Made up of the brain and the spinal cord

• spinal cord

• cells

• central nervous system

• nervous system

A tubelike structure of neurons

• peripheral nervous system

• proteins

• spinal cord

• neurons

Has sensory neurons and motor neurons that transmit information between the central nervous system and the rest of the body

• peripheral nervous system

• spinal cord

• central nervous system

• sensory system

The part of your nervous system that detects or senses the environment

• receptors

• sensory system

• spinal cord

• neurons

Special structures in all parts of the sensory system that detect stimuli

• sensory system

• spinal cord

• neurons

• receptors

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