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| Includes brain and spinal cord- Processing all incoming and outgoing messages. |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| Consists of communitcation pathways, or nerves, that connect all all areas of your body to your CNS. |
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| Cells that transfer messages throughout your body in the form of fast moving electrical energy. |
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| The electrical messages that pass along the neurons. |
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| Specialized dendrites that detect changes inside and outside the body. |
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| Axons bundled together with blood vessels and connective tissue |
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| The nervous systems largest organ that controls most movement and change in the body. |
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| an involuntary action that that helps protect your body from danger. |
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| A light-sensitive layer in the back of the eye. |
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| the photoreceptor that can detect dim light. |
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| Detect bright light- Let you see color |
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| The part of the eye that gives the eye color. |
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| A piece of curved material behind the pupil that allows light ot pass through but changes it direction. |
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| A tiny snail-shaped organ of the inner ear. |
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| Involved with the slower, long-term processes, such as fluid balance, growth, and sexual development. |
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| A group of cells that makes special chemicals for your body. |
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| Chemicals that are produced by the endocrine glands. |
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| Special systems that turn endocrine glands on and off. |
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