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It would have no energy in the form of ATP to do its job. Mitochondria are the power sources of all cells.

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== == It will become necrotic and will be phagocytosed (degraded & recycled).

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Is mitochondria a motor neuron?

No it is not a cell. It is a cell organelle.


What might a neuron have?

Neurons have lots of things. They have the usual cellular apparatus, a membrane, a nucleus, mitochondria, etc. They can also have some distinctive neuron type structures, which are axons and dendrites.


What is known as the cells stomach?

It is the mitochondria. They produce energy in cell


What ion is found on the inside of a neuron?

The main ions found inside a neuron are potassium and organic anions. The organic anions cannot cross the cell membrane but potassium ions can. It is the diffusion of potassium ions out of the cell which is the main cause of the resting membrane potential.


Where is the neuron?

The Inter-neuron (also known as the local circuit neuron, relay neuron or the association neuron) is the neuron which connects the afferent and the efferent neurons in the neural pathways.


Specialized cell that makes up the nervous system?

The cells that makes up the nervous system is the Inter-neuron (circuit neuron), sensory neuron and motor neuron.


Why is a neuron called an interneuron?

A neuron is called a inter-neuron because that specific neuron takes impulse from one neuron to a next neuron. For example your sensory neuron sends a impulse that you had felt a hot object. It goes through the spine to a inter-neuron to a motor neuron (this processes is called a reflex). Then the motor neuron tells your muscles in your hand to move


Define relay neuron?

a relay neuron is the neuron that picks up the message from the sensory neuron and delivers it to the motor neuron in the spinal cord or the brain


What is the function of relay neuron?

A relay neuron is the neuron that picks up the message from the sensory neuron and delivers it to the motor neuron in the spinal cord then to the brain.


What is the 3 types of neuron?

one type of neuron is the motor neuron


What is intermixed neuron?

a neuron which recieve both messages from afferent and efferent neuron...


What type of neuron connects to a muscle?

A motor or efferent neuron.