Question

Difference between action potential and resting membrane potential

Answer 1

What is the difference between membrane potential, action potential and receptor potential? Give a simple answer.
I note that you ask for the difference between these potentials, not for an explanation of what they are. Basically, the 3 potentials differ in when and where they occur.

All nerve cells have a membrane potential, all the time, all over the cell. (Many non-nerve cells have them too). An action potential occurs only sporadically (i.e.,, only when the membrane potential at the axon hillock reaches firing threshold) and action potentials are (simplistically) only in axon hillocks and axons. A receptor potential is a membrane potential in a receptor (like a photoreceptor or a mechanized-receptor), though the term usually refers to the potential in a receptor generated when the receptor receives the type of stimulation is is designed to detect (e.g., light or touch).

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Answer 2

Answer:

sorry buddy I don't know