Unit 1 Parts of the Nervous System: Cells to Brain

Question 1

What is the structure of the cell membrane?

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Question 2

What is the function/importance of the lipid bilayer?

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Question 3

How does the cell membrane regulate what enters and leaves a cell?

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Question 4

What makes neurons unique compared to other cells?

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Question 5

Neuron Theory

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Idea that neurons are the ns discrete functional units, proposed by Ramon y Cajal. Evidence from golgi staining on chick embryo brain.

Question 6

What is a synapse?

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Question 7

What does it mean that neurons are the information processing units?

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Neurons work with other groups to form neural networks that constitute our ability to process info.

Question 8

Define nucleotide, DNA, gene, and mRNA

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Question 9

What is transcription ?

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Question 10

What is translation?

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Question 11

Where do proteins go one they’re synthesized?

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Question 12

What is a neural network?

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Question 13

anatomical terms position

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Question 14

Central Nervous System

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Question 15

Peripheral Nervous system

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Question 16

Why is white matter white?

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Question 17

What is in gray matter?

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Question 18

4 lobes of brain

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Question 19

Corpus Callosum

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Question 20

Thalamus

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Question 21

Hypothalamus

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Question 22

Brainstem

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Question 23

Function associated with the dorsal of spinal cord.

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Question 24

Function associated with ventral aspect of spinal cord.

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Question 25

soma

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cell body or core region of cell

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dendrite

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extension of neurons cell membrane, increases surface area, *collects info from other cells

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axon

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root, or single fiber of neuron that carries electrical signal message down

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connectome

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comprehensive map of all structural connectivity in organisms ns

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dendritic spine

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protrusion that increases sa, point of dendritic contact with axons of other cells

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axon hillock

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juncture of soma and axon

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axon collateral

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branch of an axon

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terminal button

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knob at tip of axon that chemical messengers present send info to other neurons

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synapse

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spatial junction, information transfer site for chemical messengers

Question 34

What are three types of neurons?

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Sensory, interneuron, motor neuron

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Sensory Neuron

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conduct information from the sensory receptors on o on the body to the spinal cord and brain

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Interneuron

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associate sensory and motor activity in the CNS

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Motor Neuron

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carry information from the brain and spinal cord out to the body’s muscles.