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The brain lobe you can’t see from the surface:

The cell bodies for nerves innervating the stomach, spleen and liver are located in:

Cerebral lateralization (right vs. left brain) usually develops:

The blood-brain barrier is formed by:

There are ______ pairs of thoracic nerves

The gray matter of a spinal cord contains:

Lower motor neurons can be excitatory or inhibitory.

“Beads on a string” describes:

The only cranial nerve that extends beyond the head:

9.  Do students sleep more in Pennsylvania or in California? A study was designed to estimate the difference in the number of hours students sleep per night and the summary statistics for the following two universities is given below: Penn State University:       n=190       sample mean = 7.17       s = 1.95 University of California, Davis:       n=173       sample mean = 6.83       s = 1.71 Does the data show that the mean number of hours that Penn State University students sleep per night is significantly different from the mean number of hours that University of California, Davis students sleep per night?  (While answering the following sub-parts of this question, you will be including the null and alternative hypothesis, the test statistic, the p-value (a visualization and an interpretation), your statistical decision, and your conclusion in the context of the problem.) (d) What is the correct statistical decision for Step 4 of the hypothesis test?