The Great but Temporary Increase in the Number of Dendrites

question 58

Short Answer

The great but temporary increase in the number of dendrites that develop in an infant's brain during the first two years of life is called "________."

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Definitions:

Caring

Exhibiting kindness and concern for others.

Gametes

Reproductive cells (sperm in males and eggs in females) that carry genetic information and can fuse during fertilization to start the development of a new individual.

Zygote

The initial cell formed when a sperm cell from a male fertilizes an egg cell from a female, marking the beginning of a new organism's development.

Chromosome

One of the 46 molecules of DNA (in 23 pairs) that virtually every cell of the human body contains and that, together, contain all of the genes. Other species have more or fewer chromosomes.