IV.A.6 Head & Back: Spinal Nerves

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	Step 3: The spinal nerves have somatic motor and sensory divisions. Describe the impulse path for both somatic motor and sensory nerves.

	How do the viseral motor pathways differ from the somatic motor pathways?
Somatic motor pathways have no ganglia involved and therefore have only one neuron. However, visceral motor pathways involve a ganglion and therefore there are two neurons involved.