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1. What are the functions of the nervous system?
ANS- detects changes, make deci-sions, stimulates muscle and gland tissue, and
maintains homeostasis
2. Receiving information, receptors detect changes, transduce into electrical
impulse, and carries information to CNS is
ANS- sensory function
3. CNS, coordinates incoming information, makes decisions on how the body
will respond is
ANS- integrative function
4. carries signal to effectors, acts out decision, SNS and ANS is
ANS- motor function
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, 5. receive information
ANS- dendrite
6. axon hillock, collaterals
ANS- axon
7. multiple dendrites, branched axons
ANS- multipolar
8. cell body on one side, dendrites fused
ANS- pseudounipolar
9. single dendrite
ANS- bipolar
10. lacks an identifiable axon
ANS- anaxonic
11. conduct impulses from receptors in peripheral body parts into the brain or
spinal cord, most unipolar, some bipolar and some multipolar
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