What are the two types of nerves found in the peripheral nervous system?

The correct choice identifies the two main types of nerves in the peripheral nervous system as motor nerves and sensory nerves. Motor nerves are responsible for transmitting signals from the central nervous system to the muscles, enabling movement and coordination. Sensory nerves, on the other hand, carry information from sensory receptors in the body back to the central nervous system, providing critical data about the environment, such as touch, pain, temperature, and proprioception (the sense of body position).

In the context of the peripheral nervous system, these two types of nerves work together to facilitate communication between the brain, spinal cord, and the rest of the body, allowing for a coordinated response to various stimuli. This distinction is foundational in understanding how motor and sensory functions are integrated, allowing for both voluntary movements and the processing of sensory information.

The other options present terms that do not encapsulate the primary functional divisions of peripheral nerves as clearly. While autonomic and voluntary nerves generally pertain to involuntary and voluntary control mechanisms, the terms are not standard classifications used to define peripheral nerve types. Internodal refers more specifically to segments of myelinated fibers in a nerve rather than types of nerves, and afferent and efferent describe the direction of nerve signal transmission but are not typically