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The nervous system is divided broadly into two categories... The peripheral nervous system is composed of sensory neurons and the neurons that connect them to the... The human nervous system can be described both by... the nervous system can be divided into distinct organs... Neurons are electrically excitable cells in the nervous system that process and transmit information... more functional way of dividing of the human nervous system is classification according to the role that the different neural pathways play... these divisions of the nervous system can be further divided according to the direction in which they conduct nerve impulses... Because the nervous system uses a combination of electrical and chemical signals... If the nervous system was only comprised of chemical signals... the nervous system would not be able to signal the arm to move fast enough to escape dangerous... the speed of the nervous system is evolutionarily valuable... The nervous system is able to make basic motor skills and other skills possible... have a nervous system made up of a series of...

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