A surgeon is repairing damage to an individual's abdominal area, and accidentally connects a nerve that originally controlled the smooth muscle of the GI tract to the skeletal muscle of the abdominal wall. Hypothesize what might happen in this instance.
A) The individual will no longer have voluntary control of the smooth muscle in his GI tract.
B) The nerve will change divisions and contain only somatic neurons.
C) Nothing, because the tissue of the GI tract responds only to the enteric nervous system, and the autonomic innervation was not vital.
D) This area of the GI tract will no longer be able to exchange information with the CNS through this nerve.
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