To What Does Saltatory Conduction Refer

question 36

Multiple Choice

To what does saltatory conduction refer?

• A) the production of an action potential by the movement of sodium ions
• B) the transmission of an impulse along a myelinated axon
• C) the transmission of impulses along dendrites
• D) the transmission of an impulse between one neuron and another

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Definitions:

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, indicating where the middle of the data set lies.

Variability

The degree to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other and from the average.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a set of numbers, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Measure of Central Tendency

A statistical tool used to identify the center of a data set, commonly represented by the mean, median, or mode.