Functions of the Nervous System

Which among the two functions is the function of the nervous system?

• FUNCTION 1. It exchanges gases between the external environment and the blood.

• FUNCTION 2. It gathers information both from the outside world and from the inside of the body.

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Nerves that carry impulses from the CNS out to the muscles and glands are...

• Efferent Nerves

• Sensory Receptors

• Afferent Nerves

Which of the following identifies Letter C?

• Peripheral

• Brain

• Motor Information

• Sensory Information

Involuntary functions that controls the cardiac muscle of the heart and other smooth muscles of the internal organs.

• Efferent Nerves

• Somatic Nervous System

• Autonomic Nervous System

• Afferent Nerves

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Voluntary functions that stimulates our skeletal muscles, causing them to develop tension.

• Afferent Nerves

• Somatic Nervous System

• Autonomic Nervous System

• Efferent Nerves

Wrap around nerve fibers and produce a fatty insulating material called myelin

• Ependymal Cells

• Astrocytes

• Microglia

• Oligodendrocytes

Form the fatty myelin sheaths around nerve fibers in the PNS

• Schwann Cells

• Astrocytes

• Satellite Cells

• Microglia

Collect stimuli and transport them to the cell body

• Neurilemma

• Nodes of Ranvier

• Dendrites

• Myelin Sheath

Carry impulses from the skin and organs to the spinal cord and brain

• Neurilemma

• Motor Neurons

• Interneurons/ Association Neurons

• Sensory Neurons

Transmit impulses from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands

• Neurilemma

• Motor Neurons

• Interneurons/ Association Neurons

• Sensory Neurons