Question

what is dendrites.................

Answer 1

a short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.

Answer 2

What are dendrites ?

Dendrites are branched cytosplasmic projections of the cell body which conveys nerve impulses towards the cell body.

Details :

The dendrites are the extensions of the cytoplasm of the neuron cell bodies.

The cell body of the neuron has well defined nucleus and a granular cytoplasm.

The synapse is the junction between terminal branches of another neuron and the dendrites of axon.

The function of the dendrites is that it provides and carries impulses to the cell body or cyton.