Imagine this: You are walking along the gorge trail and in the water you see a bug. The bug is trying to swim to safety and as he is doing so, he...

Imagine this: You are walking along the gorge trail and in the water you see a bug. The bug is trying to swim to safety and as he is doing so, he moves his legs in a rhythmic pattern. You decide to pick the insect up and bring him back to your lab. Once there, you want to know what is controlling the swimming motion in the insect.

a. What are two types of networks that could generate a rhythmic patterned movement?

b. How would you go about finding where these movement-generating neurons are? What experiments would you do? (Assume you have identified the type of insect and acquired many more for your experiments).

c) What would you do to ensure that these are the neurons generating the movement? Are there drugs you can add to isolate the neurons?

d) If you were also a great molecular biologist, how would you stimulate only the neuron/s involved in creating the movement?