Abby, a graduate student working in a neuroscience lab, grows neurons in a petri dish to study the effects of environmental toxins on neuronal communication. During one of Abby's experiments, she accidentally damages the axon of a neuron. What will be an immediate consequence of this mishap?

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Lailah Gaines

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8 September, 09:51

Abby, a graduate student working in a neuroscience lab, grows neurons in a petri dish to study the effects of environmental toxins on neuronal communication. During one of Abby's experiments, she accidentally damages the axon of a neuron. What will be an immediate consequence of this mishap?

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Rocco Glover · Answer 1

The neurons will not be able to transmit information to other cells

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The immediate consequence of the laboratory accident by Abby, is that the neurons will not be able to transmit information to other cells. The axon is a threadlike extension of the cell and its main function is the transmitting of information away from a cell to another and hence any damage to it will make impossible for information to be transmitted from that cell to another.