Multiple Choice
A common feature of action potentials is that they
A) cause the membrane to hyperpolarise and then depolarise.
B) can undergo temporal and spatial summation.
C) are triggered by a depolarisation that reaches threshold.
D) move at the same speed along all axons.
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