Multiple Choice
Action potentials are normally carried in only one direction: from the axon hillock toward the axon terminals.If you experimentally depolarize the middle of the axon to threshold,then
A) no action potential will be initiated.
B) an action potential will be initiated and proceed only in the normal direction toward the axon terminal.
C) an action potential will be initiated and proceed only back toward the axon hillock.
D) two action potentials will be initiated,one going toward the axon terminal and one going back toward the hillock.
E) an action potential will be initiated,but it will die out before it reaches the axon terminal.
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