CSCC Bio 2300-Functional Nervous System -Questions and Correct Answers
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Innervate - ✔✔Provides nerve fibers to/from organ tissue.
Efferent - ✔✔Motor, information exiting the CNS
Afferent - ✔✔Sensory; information arriving at the CNS
Somatic Efferent - ✔✔Skeletal muscle (voluntary)
Somatic Afferent - ✔✔Sensory receptors in the skin, joint capsules, muscle fibers, and
muscle tendons
Visceral Efferent - ✔✔Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands
Visceral Afferent - ✔✔Sensory receptors in the gut, heart, and some glands
Number of cells needed for afferent - ✔✔1
Number of cells needed for somatic efferent - ✔✔1
Number of cells needed for visceral efferent - ✔✔2
Location of somatic afferent cell body - ✔✔Posterior root ganglion
Location of somatic efferent cell body - ✔✔Anterior horn of the spinal cord
Location of the parasympathetic afferent cell body - ✔✔Posterior root ganglion
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Innervate - ✔✔Provides nerve fibers to/from organ tissue.
Efferent - ✔✔Motor, information exiting the CNS
Afferent - ✔✔Sensory; information arriving at the CNS
Somatic Efferent - ✔✔Skeletal muscle (voluntary)
Somatic Afferent - ✔✔Sensory receptors in the skin, joint capsules, muscle fibers, and
muscle tendons
Visceral Efferent - ✔✔Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands
Visceral Afferent - ✔✔Sensory receptors in the gut, heart, and some glands
Number of cells needed for afferent - ✔✔1
Number of cells needed for somatic efferent - ✔✔1
Number of cells needed for visceral efferent - ✔✔2
Location of somatic afferent cell body - ✔✔Posterior root ganglion
Location of somatic efferent cell body - ✔✔Anterior horn of the spinal cord
Location of the parasympathetic afferent cell body - ✔✔Posterior root ganglion
