Unit 5 Part 1 --- Neuron Webquest

Go to “Make a Mad, Mad, Mad Neuron”

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/madneuron/

Build your own monster neural circuit

1. Define the following structures used to make your mad neuron.

2. Find an image of a neural circuit and cut and paste it into the box below

Go to “Crossing the Divide: How Neurons Talk to Each Other”

3. How do nerves communicate with one another?

4. What is inside a vesicle? Give one example.

5. What do the receptors do?

6. Why use a second messenger?

7. What does the second messenger do?

8. When is the impulse terminated?

Go to “The Other Brain Cells”

9. Identify the function of the different glia cells in the brain.

Oligodendrocytes

Microglia

Astrocytes

10. How can astrocytes help defend against disease?