Jasmine is in her physiology lab practicing labeling a neuron. When she gets to the nodes of Ranvier, she will be labeling ______.

A. the spiny outgrowths on dendrites
B. the myelin sheath
C. the swelling at the end of the axon
D. the gaps in the myelin sheath along the axon


Answer: D

Psychology

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