Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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.


A

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