Match the structure to its description.

1. maintain muscle tone at rest through tonic activity
2. have afferent neurons that bring information to the CNS
3. excite both alpha and gamma motor neurons
4. found at the junction of tendons and muscle fibers
5. have gamma motor neurons that innervate internal fibers
6. eventually synapses with alpha motor neurons that innervate extrafusal muscle fibers

A. muscle spindles
B. Golgi tendon organs
C. both


1. A. muscle spindles
2. C. both
3. A. muscle spindles
4. B. Golgi tendon organs
5. A. muscle spindles
6. A. muscle spindles

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