When action potentials are conducted down an axon, what happens inside the terminal buttons?

A. Synaptic vesicles fuse with the terminal membrane.
B. Terminal buttons become momentarily "frozen."
C. Presynaptic membranes become postsynaptic membranes.
D. Synaptic vesicles travel toward the soma.


Answer: A

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