The ________ contains the metabolic machinery necessary to keep a neuron alive and functioning properly.

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The cell body, or soma, contains the necessary organelles such as the nucleus, mitochondria, and ribosomes to carry out essential metabolic functions to keep the neuron alive and functioning properly. The dendrites and axons are responsible for receiving and transmitting signals, respectively, but they do not contain the same level of metabolic machinery as the cell body. Myelin is a fatty substance that insulates axons and increases the speed of signal transmission, but it is not involved in the metabolic processes of the neuron.

The ________ Contains the Metabolic Machinery Necessary to Keep a Neuron