Describe the structural features of the vertebrate nervous system.

Vertebrates are characterized by a tubular nervous system.

The central nervous system is represented by a neural tube – the brain and spinal cord; peripheral – by the nerves that depart from them.

The brain consists of the following parts: oblong, posterior, middle, intermediate and anterior or terminal. The medulla oblongata has borders with the spinal cord; it contains various nerve centers that regulate vital processes: cardiac activity, breathing, swallowing, etc.



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