On a hot summer day,five children decide to fill up Brock's kiddie pool.Yesterday,Brock's father ran over the hose with the lawnmower,so the hose is not working.The children decide to create a bucket line from the faucet to the pool.The first child passes the full bucket to the second child,the second to the third,and so on until the last child empties the bucket into the pool.If we imagine that EACH child is a neuron,the gap between one child and the next is like a(n)
A) vesicle.
B) soma.
C) synapse.
D) node of Ranvier.

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The gap between one child and the next in the bucket line is like the synapse between two neurons. Just like how neurotransmitters move across synapses to transmit information between neurons, the bucket of water is passed from child to child to reach the pool. The other answer choices (A) vesicle, (B) soma, and (D) node of Ranvier do not accurately reflect the process of passing a bucket of water from one child to the next.

On a Hot Summer Day,five Children Decide to Fill Up