A patient is being examined for muscle weakness.To assess their condition,the doctor tests their knee-jerk reflex by tapping the patella tendon with a reflex hammer and tapping his lower jaw with your finger.Both pathways are considered monosynaptic.What do they have in common?
A)They are both autonomic,cranial reflexes
B)They both a two neuron pathway,sensory to motor
C)They are both somatic,autonomic reflexes
D)The sensory neurons exit the same segment of the spinal cord.

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Both the knee-jerk reflex and the jaw-jerk reflex are examples of monosynaptic reflexes, which involve a direct communication between a sensory neuron and a motor neuron without any interneurons, making them two-neuron pathways from sensory to motor.

A Patient Is Being Examined for Muscle Weakness