Imagine a large city in which a downtown business district is linked to outlying suburbs by a system of subway trains. The spinal cord's sensory neurons may be likened to the trains that go to the ________; the spinal cord's motor neurons are analogous to the trains that go to the ________.
A) downtown business district; downtown business district as well
B) outlying suburbs; downtown business district
C) outlying suburbs; outlying suburbs as well
D) downtown business district; outlying suburbs

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The sensory neurons in the spinal cord are like the trains going to the downtown business district because they carry sensory information from the body to the brain. The motor neurons are like the trains going to the outlying suburbs because they carry motor commands from the brain to the muscles and glands in the body.

Imagine a Large City in Which a Downtown Business District