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    A reflex arc is the pathway that electrical impulses take as they travel along neurons in a reflex response. Reflex responses do not involve conscious thought and occur automatically and quickly to help avoid injury, such as blinking when something nears the eye. A reflex arc involves sensory neurons carrying a stimulus detection to the central nervous system, relay neurons connecting the sensory and motor neurons, and motor neurons carrying the response impulse to an effector to produce the reflex action.

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    A reflex arc is the pathway that electrical impulses take as they travel along neurons in a reflex response. Reflex responses do not involve conscious thought and occur automatically and quickly to help avoid injury, such as blinking when something nears the eye. A reflex arc involves sensory neurons carrying a stimulus detection to the central nervous system, relay neurons connecting the sensory and motor neurons, and motor neurons carrying the response impulse to an effector to produce the reflex action.

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    A reflex arc is the pathway that electrical impulses take as they travel along neurons in a reflex response. Reflex responses do not involve conscious thought and occur automatically and quickly to help avoid injury, such as blinking when something nears the eye. A reflex arc involves sensory neurons carrying a stimulus detection to the central nervous system, relay neurons connecting the sensory and motor neurons, and motor neurons carrying the response impulse to an effector to produce the reflex action.

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    REFLEX ARC

    o A reflex arc is the pathway of taken by electrical impulses as they travel along neurones
    o A reflex response does not involve the conscious part of the brain as the coordinator of the reaction since you
     are aware of the response having happened after the response has been carried out.
    o Responses are automatic and quick, such as blinking and coughing are examples of reflex responses to help us

    avoid serous injury and aid survival

    An example of a reflex response is when we accidently touch


    something hot

    1. Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in


    temperature).
    2. Sensory neurone sends electrical impulses to spinal cord.
    An electrical impulse is passed to a relay neurone in the
    spinal cord.
    3. A relay neurone synapses with a motor neurone. An
    electrical impulse travel along the first axon. This triggers
    the nerve-ending of a neurone to release
    neurotransmitters. These chemicals diffuse across the
    synapse and bind with receptor molecules on the
    membrane of the second neurone. The receptor molecules
    on the second neurone bind only to
    the specific neurotransmitters released from the first
    neurone. This stimulates the second neurone to transmit
    the electrical impulse.
    4. Motor neurone sends electrical impulses to an effector.
    5. Effector produces a response so the muscle contracts to
    move hand away. This occurs all in the fraction of a
    second.

    ]
    The neurones of the reflex arc

    o Sensory neurones carry impulses from sense


    organs to the CNS (brain or spinal cord)
    o Relay neurones are found inside the CNS
    and connect sensory and motor neurones
    o Motor neurones carry impulses from the CNS to
    effectors (muscles or glands)

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