An informant brings a tip to the police department about suspicious activity at the docks. After detectives meet and process this information, they decide that the best course of action is to send undercover officers to the scene. If the police department were a neural network, the informant would be functioning as a(n):

A) sensory neuron.
B) motor neuron.
C) cell body.
D) interneuron.


A) sensory neuron.

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