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What Is a Neuron?

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What is a neuron? Draw a labelled diagram of a neuron.
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Neuron is the structural and functional unit of the nervous system.

Neurons carry messages in the form of electric signals called electrical impulses or nerve impulses. [1 Mark]

All neurons have three different parts – dendrites, cell body and axon.

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