nervous system

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What does the sensory neurone do?
Carries signals as a electric impluse from the receptor to the central nervous system.
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What does the relay neurone do?
Nerve cell that carries signal from sensory to motor neurones.
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What does the motor neurone do?
nerve cell that carries signals from central nervous system to effector
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What do the effectors do?
Make muscles contract in response.
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what do synapses do?
They connect neurones.
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Where does the reflex arc go through?
The central nervous system
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Whats the order of the reflex arc?
1. stimulus, receptor, sensory neurone, relay, motor, effector, response.
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What are hormones?
Hormones are chemical messages which travel in the blood to activate target cells.
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what does the pituitary gland produce? and where does it produce this?
FSH LH in the menstrual cycle.
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what does the ovaries produce? and where does it produce this
OESTROGEN ovaries.
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