Item CE135001: Nerve cells both obtain energy from food and eliminate waste material.
A specialized function of living nerve cells is to transmit electrical signals from the brain to the rest of the body. Which of the following is TRUE of nerve cells?
- Nerve cells obtain energy from food, and they eliminate their own waste material.
- Nerve cells obtain energy from food, but they do not eliminate their own waste material.
- Nerve cells eliminate their own waste material, but they do not obtain energy from food.
- Nerve cells do not eliminate their own waste material, and they do not obtain energy from food.
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