Tag: generation of nerve impulse

Questions Related to generation of nerve impulse

Saltatory transmission occurs in

  1. Nonmyelinated nerve fibre

  2. Myelinated nerve fibre

  3. Both

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

State of complete inexcitability between polarisation and repolarisation is

  1. Refractory period

  2. Synaptic delay

  3. Action potential

  4. Depolarisaion


Correct Option: A

Afferent nerve fibres carry impulses from

  1. Effector organs to CNS

  2. Receptors to CNS

  3. CNS to receptors

  4. CNS to muscles


Correct Option: B

Nerve depolarisation is maintained by 

  1. C$a^{2+}$

  2. M$g^{2+}$

  3. $K^+$

  4. CI


Correct Option: C

Cell bodies of motor nerve fibres occur in

  1. Dorsal root of spinal nerve

  2. Dorsal horn of spinal cord

  3. Ventro-lateral horn of spinal cord

  4. Ventral root of spinal cord


Correct Option: C

In resting nerve what is true

  1. 3N$a^+$ are pumped in and 2 $K^+$ pumped out

  2. 3N$a^+$ are pumped out for every 2$K^+$ pumped in

  3. There is no Na-K pump

  4. Na-K pump stops working


Correct Option: B

Nerve impulse for hearing originates in 

  1. Ear drum

  2. Auditory nerve

  3. Ear ossicles

  4. Cochlea


Correct Option: D

Pre-excitation potential difference between outside and inside of a nerve is called

  1. Reaction potential

  2. Action potential

  3. Spike potential

  4. Resting potential


Correct Option: D

Direction of nerve impulse is reversed in junction

  1. Axo-axonic

  2. Axo-dendritic

  3. Axo-dendritic-axonic

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Vagus nerve is

  1. Parasympathetic nerve

  2. Sympathetic nerve

  3. X cranial nerve

  4. V cranial nerve


Correct Option: C