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Explain the need for saltatory conduction and how myelination and axon diameter affect rate of conduction...

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Explain the need for saltatory conduction and how myelinationand axon diameter affect rate of conduction – you can do this as anillustration. Make sure in your answer you include: axon, axonhillock, axon terminal, original action potential, new actionpotential, Schwann cell, myelin, node of Ranvier, depolarization,refractory DO NOT DEFINE THESE TERMS INDIVIDUALLY

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Ans Needs for Saltatory conduction Saltatory conduction is the propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node which is increasing the conduction velocity of action potentials The uninsulated nodes of Ranvier are the only places along the axon where ions are exchanged across the axon membrane    See Answer
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