Brian is playing a neuroscience trivia game. He is trying to figure out which neuron has its soma in the spinal cord and receives excitation through its dendrites and conducts impulses along its axon to a muscle. What should he guess?
a. motor neuron
b. interneuron
c. glianeuron
d. sensory neuron
Answer: a. motor neuron
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