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Why is the use of iodised salt advisable ?

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a] lodine is essential for functioning of thyroid / formation of thyroxine hormone
Disease is Goitre
Swollen neck
b] Impulse travels from dendrite to cell body, then along the axon to its end. At the end some chemicals are released which fill the gap of synapse, and starts a similar electrical impulse to another neuron and the impulse further travel in the body.
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