The "resting and digesting" division of the autonomic nervous system is the ________.

A) parasympathetic division
B) sympathetic division
C) somatic division
D) peripheral nervous system


A) parasympathetic division

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a. The ventral corticospinal tract of the spinal cord carries ascending information to the brain from the stretch receptors in muscles. b. A bundle of peripheral axons, a nerve, may contain both afferent and efferent axons. c. A spinal nerve is a collection of peripheral axons collected within a connective tissue sheath and continuous with either the dorsal or ventral root of a spinal segment. d. The ventral horn of the spinal cord gray matter houses cell bodies of efferent motor neurons supplying the skeletal muscles.

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Fill in the missing blood vessel. aortic arch; _____________; left axillary artery

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Removing a sample of the fluid surrounding the fetus for the purpose of studying the chromosomes is a procedure called ________

Fill in the blanks with correct word

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