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AP Psych: Unit 2 - Biological Bases of Behavior

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a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system

the part of a neuron that contains the nucleus; the cell's life-support center

a neuron's often bushy, branching extensions that receive and integrate messages, conducting impulses toward the cell body

the neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands

a fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one node to the next