Question

What is the example of a mixed nerve?how nerve of tongue is a mixed one?

Answer 1

Mixed nerve has motor nerve fibres to bring muscle movemnt and sensory nerve fibres to bring sensations.
Facial nerve and trigeminal nerves are the examples of mixed nerves.
Facial nerve supplies to tongue and muscles of the face.So it helps in taste sensation and also facial muscle mmovement.
That is why it is mixed nerve.