Professor Chavez is teaching a large seminar class about the human nervous system, and decides to try an interactive demonstration. He asks one student, Marcia, to stand up and walk to the middle of the room. "Marcia is a neuron, everyone," Professor Chavez says. "How many of you would have to stand up and surround Marcia to reflect the number of glia cells that exist for every single neuron in the human nervous system?" The students will be correct when ________ students get up and stand around Marcia.

a. 25
b. 50
c. 100
d. 10

Ans: d. 10

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