The Peripheral Nervous System
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Student Name Leia Pardue
Student ID 470784
Lesson The Peripheral Nervous System
Institution Straighterline
Session V5
Course BIO201L: Anatomy & Physiology I Lab
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Test Your Knowledge
Match each component of the peripheral nervous system with the
best description.
Carries impulses from body tissues
1 Sensory nerve
to the brain and
spinal cord
Carries impulses from the brain and
2 Motor nerve
spinal cord to the
body tissues
Branching network of
3 Plexus
intersecting nerves and
associated blood vessels
Neural pathway that produces
4 Reflex arc
an immediate
response to a stimulus
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, Label the parts of a motor neuron.
1 Dendrites
2 Soma
3 Axon
4 Axon Terminal
Exploration
All nerves originating from the spinal cord are classified
as
nerves because they contain bundles of both afferent
and efferent fibers.
sensory
motor
plexus
mixed
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