Biology of Humans 6th Edition by Judith Goodenough,Betty McGuire

Exercise 14

In botulism, a type of food poisoning, the poison produced by bacteria in the spoiled food prevents the person's synaptic vesicles from fusing with the neuron's membrane. You would expect that this effect would
A) cause excessive destruction of neurotransmitter in the synaptic cleft.
B) destroy myelin.
C) prevent the message of the presynaptic cell from reaching the postsynaptic cell.
D) cause neurotransmitters to clog the synaptic cleft.