6.1

Question 1

What type of fibres are in spinal nerves: sensory or motor?

Answer 1

Both; it’s a mixture before it branches off into ventral and dorsal roots.

Question 2

Dorsal column function

Answer 2

Transmits sensory information

Question 3

Lateral column function

Answer 3

Transmits sensory and motor information

Question 4

Ventral column function

Answer 4

Transmits sensory and motor information

Question 5

What type(s) of muscle participate in visceral motor activity?

Answer 5

Smooth and cardiac

Question 6

What type(s) of muscle participate in somatic motor activity?

Answer 6

Skeletal muscle

Question 7

Reflex mech

Answer 7

1. Receptor
2. Sensory neuron
3. Integrating center in CNS (e.g. interneuron)
4. Motor neuron
5. Effector (e.g. muscle/gland)

Question 8

In what ways can we classify reflexes?

Answer 8

• By System (e.g. cranially, spinally, viscerally etc.)
• Number of synapses (e.g. monosynaptic, polysynaptic etc.)