The basic Nervous system - Answers includes sensory information, an integrating center and
effectors
most of the neurons in the human brain are - Answers interneurons
The nucleus and most of the organelles in a neuron are located in the - Answers cell body
What type of neuron exists entirely within the central nervous system (CNS)? - Answers
interneuron
The operation of the sodium potassium "pump" moves - Answers sodium ions out of the cell
and potassium ions into the cell
The membrane potential in which there is no net movement of the ion across the membrane is
called the - Answers equilibrium potential
ATP hydrolysis directly powers the movement of - Answers Na+ out of cells
The "selective" of a particular ion channel refers to its - Answers permitting passage only to a
specific ion
A common feature of action potential is that they - Answers are triggered by a depolarization
that reaches the threshold potential
If you experimentally increase the concentration of K+ inside a cell while maintaining other ion
concentrations as they were, what would happen to the cell's membrane potential? - Answers
The membrane potential would become less negative
If the activity of the sodium potassium pump was completely stopped, what would happen to
the neuron's membrane potential? - Answers slow rise in membrane potential
a common feature of action potential is that they - Answers are triggered by a deporlarization
that reached the threshold potential
If you experimentally increase the concentration of K+ inside a cell while maintaining other ion
concentrations as they were, what would happen to the cell's membrane potential? - Answers
The membrane potential would become less negative.
If the activity of the sodiumpotassium pump was completely stopped, what would happen to the
neuron's membrane potential? - Answers slow rise in membrane potential
Which of the following statements about action potentials is correct? - Answers Action
potentials are propagated down the length of the axon.
Which type of neuron passes signals from on neuron to another? - Answers interneuron