Long receptors are much better able to adapt to different stimulus intensities mostly because
A) their axons are much longer.
B) their somas are much larger.
C) both presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes are capable of changing the shape and size of the synapse.
D) long receptors usually release more neurotransmitter than short ones do.
E) electrical potentials travel faster in long receptors than in short receptors.
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Q2: Spread of electrical potentials throughout the membrane
Q3: Which would serve to demonstrate the workings
Q4: Which is true about the Weber-Fechner Law?
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Q5: Which is an advantage to using the
Q6: Which is a (small) disadvantage to using
Q7: Which is true about adaptation?
A) Stimulus leads
Q8: Which is probably not an example of
Q9: Which is an example of rapidly adapting
Q10: Experimentally, to differentiate rapidly adapting receptors from
Q11: The authors mention that it is unusual
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