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Reflexes
Use pages 234 and 235 to answer the following questions.
1. What is a reflex?
2. What are reflex arcs?
3. What is the difference between a somatic reflex and an autonomic reflex? Give an example of both.
4. Name, describe, and illustrate (draw a picture) the five elements that all reflex arcs have.
5. What is a flexor reflex and how is it different form the patellar reflex?
6. How does the number of synapses affect the speed of a reflex? Why this happen?
7. Why are spinal reflexes faster than reflexes that involve the brain?