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Biopsychology

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What is the axon?

Author: (Pippa) Pippa Holloway



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The axon carries the impulses away from the cell body down the length of the neuron. The axon is covered in a fatty layer of myelin sheath that protects. The axon and speeds up electrical transmission of the impulse.


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