Graded Potentials

question 139

Multiple Choice

Graded potentials

• A)are local changes in membrane potential that occur in varying degrees of magnitude
• B)are weak action potentials
• C)serve as long-distance signals
• D)are only depolarizations
• E)always lead to action potentials

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