Place the events of action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.
What will be an ideal response?
1. generation of initial action potential.
2. generation of a local current in membrane adjacent to initial action potential.
3. plasma membrane adjacent to initial action potential depolarizes
4. plasma membrane reaches threshold
5. generation of next action potential.
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