Multiple Choice
The process by which a neuron gets its message across the synaptic cleft to another cell is best likened to:
A) sailors carrying a message from one island to another.
B) fire traveling along the fuse of a firecracker.
C) dead tree limbs being pruned from a tree.
D) the brief change in electrical voltage when a hair dryer is turned on.
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