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Long projections of a neuron that propagate impulses away from the cell body?
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An Axon, otherwise known as a nerve fiber, is designed to carry electrical impulses away from the neuron. This is important for carrying information around the body, to and from the brain, muscles, and glands.
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A is for what part of the neurone that carries impulses away from the cell body?
A is for the axon, which is a long, thin extension of a neuron that carries impulses away from the cell body towards other neurons or target cells.
What is the long thin extension of the cell body of a neuron which is the conductor of nerve impulses?
An axon is the long extension of a nerve cell body. The dendrites are the short branches.
Axons and dendrites are part of?
They are both part of a neuron. An Axon is long and slender, and a dendrite are the branched projections.
How is the Neuron adapted to its function?
it is long and thin so can carry impulses quickly and easily from the central nervous system (the spinal chord and brain) to the parts of the body that have recieved a reaction.
How is the neuron cell adapted to its function?
it is long and thin so can carry impulses quickly and easily from the central nervous system (the spinal chord and brain) to the parts of the body that have recieved a reaction.
Afferent nerves are also called what?
Nerve cell called sensory neurons. An axon also known as a nerve fiber is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conduct electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body.If the fibres which are the branched projections attach to the cell body of nerve cell are dendrites
Which part of the neuron can carry information for long distances?
The axon is the part of the neuron that can carry information for long distances.
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The long process of a neuron is called the?
Axon
