Question
Why is conduction in a nerve called on the electric phenomenon?
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Answer
It is called so because it can be compared to the transmission of a message through a telephone cable. It travels very fast just like an electric current. Though its speed is not as much fast as that of electric current through a wire. Thus the passage of a stimulus in a nerve is an electrical process.
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