As you are cooking dinner, you accidently grab the handle of the hot skillet. Ou

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As you are cooking dinner, you accidently grab the handle of the hot skillet. Ouch! Heat sensitive pain receptors in your hand are activated by the damage (burned) skin. The information is quickly sent into the spinal cord and a neuron in the spinal cord receives the information and responds to it by activation a motor neuron that stimulates contraction of muscles in your arm to move your hand quickly away. This prevents further damage to you hand. In this reflex, the sensor is in the              and the effector(s) is (are) your             .

a.Hand, muscles

b. Spinal cord, muscles

c. spinal cord, hand

d. none of the above

Explanation / Answer

a.Hand, muscles

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