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Analyze the illustration of impulse transmission through axon and answer the following questions.

a) What are the changes that take place in illustration B when compared to A? Give reason for this change.

b) Explain how this change brings about the transmission of impulses through axon.

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a) When stimulated, ionic equilibrium in the particular part changes and the outer surface of the plasma membrane of axon becomes negatively charged while the inner surface becomes positively charged.

b)1. These changes generate impulses. 

2. The momentary charge difference in the axon stimulates its adjacent parts. 

3. Similar changes occur there also. 

4. Impulses get transmitted through axon.

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