In the "Investigating Life" Section at the End of the Chapter

question 2

Multiple Choice

In the "Investigating Life" section at the end of the chapter it is shown that toxins produced by scorpions cause sodium ion channels to become stuck open.These toxins cause pain by

• A) depolarizing motor neurons.
• B) polarizing sensory neurons.
• C) polarizing motor neurons.
• D) polarizing interneurons.
• E) depolarizing sensory neurons.

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Definitions:

Poisson Arrivals

A process that describes the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Average Number

A value obtained by dividing the sum of all quantities in a dataset by the number of quantities in that dataset, commonly known as the mean.

FCFS

"First Come, First Served," a method of service in which requests are attended to in the order in which they are received.

Balking

The phenomenon where individuals in a queue decide not to enter the queue or leave before being serviced upon assessing the wait time to be too long.