Compared to the adult brain, the brain of a newborn baby has fewer nerve cell branches that receive information, which are called
.
a. axons.
b. dendrites.
c. nodes of Ranvier.
d. neurilemma.
ANSWER: b
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a) cephalocaudal b) independence of systems c) proximodistal d) hierarchical integration
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