Nervous System: Action Potentials

Subject(s): Biology | Age: Post 16 | Type: Interactive resource | Publication Year: 2000 - 2009

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From the National Learning Network Materials' Biology collection. This interactive resource shows how nerve signals, or action potentials, are transmitted along a nerve cell.

Students see the cell's resting potential and how an action potential is generated and propogated along a nerve cell.

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rxn4

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