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Which structure connects the Brain to the Peripheral Nervous System, while also directing some of the body's reflexes?

• Spinal Cord

• Esophagus

• Pharynx

• Larynx

• Trachea

What does the axon carry?

• Impulses away from the cell body

• Impulses to the cell body

• chemicals

• messages

This is the control center of the nervous system controlling both voluntary and involuntary processes.

• Central Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

The nerves that coordinate messages from the brain and spine to all other parts of the body.

• Central Nervous System

• Peripheral Nervous System

The Brain is made of a large mass of

• Muscular Tissue

• Neurons

• Red Blood Cells

• While Blood Cells

• Glands

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Which brain structure controls all involuntary processes such as breathing, heartbeat, peristalsis

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Medulla

Which brain structure controls all voluntary activities and is responsible for thought, memory, emotions, and reasoning?

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Medulla

Neuron

• a nerve cell with a unique structure for receiving and passing on information

• a signal that causes an animal to react in some way

• found in the brain and spinal cord and allow sensory and motor neurons to communicate

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Sensory Neurons

• the animal’s reaction to the stimulus

• nerve cells that detect stimuli

• nerve cells that carry response information to muscles and other organs

Interneurons/Relay neurons

• nerve cells that detect stimuli

• a signal that causes an animal to react in some way

• nerve cells that carry response information to muscles and other organs

• found in the brain and spinal cord and allow sensory and motor neurons to communicate

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