When Potassium Channels in the Hair Cell Open, Potassium Will

question 113

Multiple Choice

 When potassium channels in the hair cell open, potassium will _________ the cell, producing _________.

• A) enter; depolarization
• B) enter; hyperpolarization
• C) leave; depolarization
• D) leave; hyperpolarization

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Definitions:

Characterize

To describe the distinctive qualities or features of something or someone.

Dispersion

A statistical term describing the spread or variability of a set of data points or values around a central value.

Kurtosis

A measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, indicating how the tails differ from the normal distribution.

Histogram

A type of bar graph used in statistics to represent the distribution of a dataset by showing the frequencies of different intervals of values.