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What is a Reflex arc ?

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Picking up information of a stimulus to generate a response involves a pathway from detectors to brain or spinal cord or a set of nerve cell heads near spinal cord to the effectors.
Such a single pathway going up to the spinal cord from detectors and returning to effectors is a reflex arc.
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