Exam 27: Nervous, Sensory, and Locomotor Systems

Examine the neurotransmitters in the synapse in the accompanying figure.What might happen to these neurotransmitters after they have carried the signal to the receiving neuron? The neurotransmitters are ______.

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by ______.

A baseball player leaping for a baseball and a cricket jumping away from a frog are both using all of the following except their ______.

A person who cannot focus well on distant objects has ______.

Which of the following carry incoming messages toward the cell body of a neuron?

What causes the inside of a membrane to become positively charged during an action potential?

When you hear,the ______ vibrates.

In a chemical synapse,what is the name of the gap between the sending and receiving cells?

Which of the following neurons are part of the peripheral nervous system?

Which of the following structures constitute(s)part of the appendicular skeleton?

The organ of Corti is in the ______.

Multiple sclerosis primarily involves ______.

According to the sliding-filament model of muscle contraction,a sarcomere contracts when its ______.

Muscles are connected to bones by ______.

Functionally,what is the muscle fiber's fundamental unit of contraction?

Which of the following was supported by the terrible accident that happened to Phineas Gage?

The receptor potential is the ______.

If you lay your forearm along the table,you can rotate it so that your hand changes from a palm-down to a palm-up position.This is possible because your radius and ulna join at a ______ joint.

Which of the following is an example of sensory adaptation of receptors?

Which one of the following statements is true?