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Question
The diagram given below represents the spinal cord of a mammal, seen in a transverse section together with the nerves. Study the diagram and then answer the questions given below:
(i) Label the parts 1—8 indicated by guidelines.
(ii) What do the arrows indicate? What is the pathway indicated termed?
(iii) What type of nerve is shown in the diagram?
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Solution
(i)
- White matter
- Gray matter
- Dorsal root
- Ventral root
- Dorsal ganglion
- Sensory neuron
- Spinal nerve
- Synapse
(ii) The arrows indicate the arrangement of white and gray matter is reversed from that in the brain. The patl4way indicated is termed as a nerve pathway in a simple spinal reflex.
(iii) Sensory or Afferent nerve.
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