Your Study Partner Has Concluded That a Single Action Potential

question 196

Essay

Your study partner has concluded that a single action potential, once initiated, spreads down the length of an axon, non-decrementally; similarly, a single graded potential spreads down the length of a dendrite, but with decrement.Is she completely correct? Explain.How can the mechanism of decremental and non-decremental conduction help her sort this out? How is the process different in myelinated vs.unmyelinated neurons? How may the dominoes analogy help her to understand signal propagation?

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