The process by which a neuron gets its message across the synaptic cleft to another cell is best likened to:
A) sailors carrying a message from one island to another.
B) fire traveling along the fuse of a firecracker.
C) dead tree limbs being pruned from a tree.
D) electricity traveling along a telephone wire.

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The process is best likened to sailors carrying a message from one island to another because it involves the transfer of information (in the form of neurotransmitters) across a gap (the synaptic cleft) from one neuron to another, similar to how sailors would carry a message across water from one island to another.

The Process by Which a Neuron Gets Its Message Across