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Chapter 1: Structure and Function: Neuroanatomy and Research Methods

Multiple Choice Questions

• Dendrites are
• a type of glial cell.
• the input zone of a nerve cell.
• the conduction zone of a nerve cell.
• small interneurons.

Answer: b

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

• Which pathway represents the most common sequence of information flow through a

neuron?

• Cell body → axon → dendrite → axon terminal
• Dendrite → cell body → axon → axon hillock
• Dendrite → cell body → axon → axon terminal
• Dendrite → axon terminal → cell body → axon

Answer: c

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

• Which statement about neurons is true?
• All neurons have the same four functional zones.
• Multipolar neurons can have many dendrites and many axons.
• Some interneurons lack a nucleus.
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Answer: a

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

• Preventing the formation of on dendrites would decrease the space available

for synapses.

• synaptic vesicles
• dendritic spines
• the myelin sheath
• the axon hillock

Answer:b

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level: 4. Analyzing

• Neurons receive information from other neurons at the zone through cellular

extensions called .

• integration; hillock
• input; dendrites
• conduction; axon
• output; terminal

Answer: b

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

• Axon terminals typically form synapses on the cell body or dendrites of a(n)
• postsynaptic neuron.
• presynapticneuron. 3 / 4

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• oligodendrocyte.
• Schwann cell.

Answer: a

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level:1. Remembering

• Axon terminals
• are found within synaptic vesicles.
• are protrusions occurring along the length of dendrites.
• form synapses onto other cells.
• are specialized synapses occurring on muscles.

Answer: c

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective:1.1.1 Name and describe the general functions of the four main parts of a neuron.

Bloom’s Level:2. Understanding

• When you reach out for your pen and feel its shape in your hand, which type of

neurons are conveying the sensation in your fingers to your spinal cord?

• Multipolar
• Bipolar
• Unipolar
• Depolarized

Answer: c

Section:1.1 The Nervous System Is Made of Specialized Cells

Learning Objective: 1.1.2 Classify neurons according to both structure and function.

Bloom’s Level: 3. Applying

• Bipolar neurons have at one of the cell and at the other end.

a.many dendrites; a single axon

• a single dendrite; a single axon
• many dendrites;branching axons
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