Compare and contrast action and graded potentials. Your answer should include a definition of each, types, characteristics, ionic basis, functions, and anything else necessary to answer the question.
What will be an ideal response?
Action potentials are stereotyped changes in axon membrane potential that function in long-distance communication between neurons and their target cells. Graded potentials are variable membrane potential
changes, usually in dendrites of multipolar neurons, that function in either short-distance communication or changing the probability of an action potential.
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