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What instructs electrical pulses to move any part of an organism, and then what instructs that part to release any energy at all?

Asked by pleiades (6617points) July 18th, 2014

Ok let’s say a cricket hops. What makes the leg hop, and then what makes that energy released to make the leg hop and so forth?

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If I understand your question, this is a good basic description of the interaction between an electrical nerve impulse and a muscle.

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