Question

state two features of reflex actions?

Answer 1

Answer:

Reflexes are set motor responses to specific sensory stimuli. All reflexes share three classical characteristics: they have a sensory inflow pathway, a central relay site, and a motor outflow pathway. Together, these three elements make up the reflex arc.

Explanation:

When light acts as a stimulus, the pupil of the eye changes in size.

Sudden jer ky withdrawal of hand or leg when pricked by a pin.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

A reflex arc is a neural pathway that controls a reflex. In vertebrates, most sensory neurons do not pass directly into the brain, but synapse in the spinal cord. This allows for faster reflex actions to occur by activating spinal motor neurons without the delay of routing signals through the brain. The brain will receive the sensory input while the reflex is being carried out and the analysis of the signal takes place after the reflex action

During a somatic reflex, nerve signals travel along the following pathway:

1. Somatic receptors in the skin, muscles and tendons
2. Afferent nerve fibers carry signals from the somatic receptors to the posterior horn of the spinal cord or to the brainstem
3. An integrating center, the point at which the neurons that compose the gray matter of the spinal cord or brainstem synapse
4. Efferent nerve fibers carry motor nerve signals from the anterior horn to the muscles
5. Effector muscle innervated by the efferent nerve fiber carries out the response