Question

difference b/w electrical synapses and chemical synapses

Answer 1

Electrical synapse:
- conduction is fast.
- synaptic cleft: 0.2nm
- neurotransmitter in synaptic cleft absent.
- very rare in body. Only in heart, walls of alimentary canal and few in brain.
- synaptic delay is absent
- cannot be blocked.

Chemical synapse :
- conduction is slow.
- cleft: >0.2nm
- neurotransmitter in cleft present.
- commonly found in body.
- synaptic delay present
- can be controlled or blocked by neurotransmitters.