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The knee jerk reflex, in which your foot kicks in response to a tap on your knee, is also known as a _________ reflex.
 
  a. withdrawal
 b. postural
 c. patellar
 d. polysynaptic

Question 2

Axons carrying sensory information to the brain may be found in
 
  a. the ventral white matter of the spinal cord.
 b. the dorsal white matter of the spinal cord.
 c. both the ventral and dorsal white matter of the spinal cord.
  d. the lateral gray matter of the spinal cord only.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b


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