One of the Few Successful Wartime American Efforts to Save

question 99

Multiple Choice

One of the few successful wartime American efforts to save Jews from perishing in the Holocaust came when

• A) Americans helped some German and Austrian Jews seek refuge in neutral Sweden and Switzerland.
• B) American Zionist organizations helped Romanian Jews escape to Israel.
• C) the U.S. Air Force bombed the rail lines leading to Auschwitz.
• D) American agents enabled French Jews to escape across the Pyrenees into Spain.
• E) Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board helped some Hungarian Jews escape.

Differentiate between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters and their effects on the neuron's potential.

Understand the all-or-none law of neural conduction.

Familiarize with the physical and chemical barriers that protect the nervous system.

Grasp the concept of graded potentials and their differences from action potentials.

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Definitions:

Opiate Receptors

Specialized protein structures located in the brain, spinal cord, and digestive tract that interact with opioid substances to produce pain relief, pleasure, and other effects.

Glutamate

An important neurotransmitter in the brain involved in learning, memory, and the regulation of the nervous system's activity.

Neuron's Reaction

The process by which a neuron responds to stimuli, often involving electrical and chemical signals to transmit information.

Axon Branches

Extensions of an axon, which are part of a neuron, that help in transmitting neural signals to other cells.