Outline, in order, the six steps involved in passing information from one neuron to another.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: (1) Neurotransmitters are created and stored; (2) an action potential travels down the axon to the terminal; (3) a neurotransmitter is released into the synapse; (4) the neurotransmitter binds with specific proteins in the next neuron; (5) this either increases or decreases the possibility the next neuron will create an action potential; and (6) the synapse is made neutral again.
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