You set up a mapping cross involving your favorite gene (YFG) in Neurospora and determine the following octad types: 4:4 arrangement 83; 2:4:2 arrangement 7; 2:2:2:2 arrangement 10. What is the distance between your gene and the centromere?

#Question id: 11225

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

What happens if twice as many inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) as excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) arrive in close proximity at a postsynaptic neuron?

#Question id: 11226

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

At the neuromuscular junction, the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) is degraded by acetylcholinesterase. If a neurophysiologist applies the naturally occurring acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, onchidal (produced by the mollusc Onchidella binneyi), to a synapse, what would you expect to happen?

#Question id: 11495

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In a neuron with a resting membrane potential of −65mV, the distribution of which ion across the neuronal membrane represents the greatest potential electromotive force (EMF)?

#Question id: 11496

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Forced rapid breathing results in alkalization of the blood which would lead to which of the following changes in neuronal activity?

#Question id: 11497

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Which of the following is best described as an elongated, encapsulated receptor found in the dermal pegs of glabrous skin and is especially abundant on lips and fingertips?

#Question id: 11498

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Pain receptors in the skin are typically classified as which of the following?