If you were to accidentally touch a hot stove with your hand, you would quickly pull your hand away. The information carried to the muscles in your arm to make them contract was carried by ____.
A) efferent neurons
B) afferent neurons
C) intrinsic neurons
D) sensory neurons

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Efferent neurons carry signals from the central nervous system to the muscles to make them contract, which is what happens when you quickly pull your hand away from a hot stove.

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