Synapes

Question 1

How do neurotransmitters travel down the neuron axon?

Answer 1

Down the Microtubules

Question 2

What do the vesicles contain at the synaptic knob?

Answer 2

Neurotransmitters

Question 3

What is the main neurotransmitter?

Answer 3

Acetycholine

Question 4

What are voltage gated channels?

Answer 4

They are a cell membrane ion channels which is activated by changes in electrical membrane potential near the channel.

Question 5

What ion come in at the synaptic knob?

Answer 5

Calcium

Question 6

What are the two different forms of action potential?

Answer 6

Excitatory & Inhibitory

Question 7

Would it be cation or an anion would enter the cell to cause depolarisation?

Answer 7

Cation

Question 8

What is a cation and a anion?

Answer 8

Cation is a positively charged ion and anion is a negatively charged ion

Question 9

What is summation?

Answer 9

The name given when lots of axon terminals meet dendrites of another cell, rather than one terminal on one dendrite

Question 10

What are the two different types of Summation?

Answer 10

Temporal Summation - where only 1 terminal ending sends a fast and rapid message.
Spatial Summation - where many impulses are sent from all the terminal ends.

Question 11

What happens to excess neurotransmitter?

Answer 11

Re-uptake or enzyme breaks it down.