Reflex arcs

A. are capable of receiving a stimulus and yielding a response.
B. are the basic structural units of the nervous system.
C. occur primarily in the cerebral cortex of the brain.
D. involve inhibitory neurons.
E. do not involve the spinal cord.


A

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