nervous system 2

Question 1

What is neuromuscular junction?

Answer 1

Connection between the terminal of a motor neuron and a muscular fiber

Question 2

Compare neuromuscular junction and synapse

Answer 2

NMJ has larger bulb, protrudes into muscle fiber, postsynaptic membrane larger, has foldings

Question 3

What are major divisions of human nervous system?

Answer 3

CNS, ANS, PNS

Question 4

What makes up the brain and spinal cord?

Answer 4

CNS

Question 5

3 Major subdivisions of brain

Answer 5

cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem

Question 6

Describe brainstem

Answer 6

Part leftover when cerebrum and cerebellum are removed, basal portion, with spinal cord known as neuraxis.

Question 7

What is special mass of nervous tissue attached to and covering hindbrainstem?

Answer 7

cerebellum

Question 8

What are 3 major parts of cerebellum

Answer 8

Vermis, left, and right cerebellar hemispheres

Question 9

Cerebellum has 3 pairs of stemlike connecting ports?

Answer 9

Peduncles

Question 10

What is gray matter of outer cortex of cerebellum?

Answer 10

Cell bodies of neurons

Question 11

What is the special structure of cerebrum consisting of enlarged hemispheres called?

Answer 11

corpus callosum

Question 12

How is each cerebral hemisphere connected to the brainstem?

Answer 12

cerebral peduncle

Question 13

What is the surface of each cerebral hemisphere subdivision know as?

Answer 13

lobes

Question 14

What are the 4 lobes of the cerebral hemisphere

Answer 14

Frontal, occipital, parietal, temporal

Question 15

What is the space separating the 2 cerebral hemisphere called?

Answer 15

longitudinal fissure