Chapter 6: Overview of Muscle Tissues

Question 1

skeletal and smooth muscle cells are elongated

Answer 1

muscle fibers

Question 2

muscle cell equivalents to microfilaments

Answer 2

myofilaments

Question 3

packaged into the organs called skeletal muscles

Answer 3

skeletal muscle fibers

Question 4

muscles that attach to the body’s skeleton

Answer 4

skeletal muscles

Question 5

skeletal muscle is also known as

Answer 5

striated muscle and voluntary muscle

Question 6

a delicate connective tissue sheath

Answer 6

endomysium

Question 7

coarser fibrous membrane called a ___ to form a bundle of fibers called a ____

Answer 7

perimysium and fascicle

Question 8

many fascicles are bound together by an even tougher overcoat of connective tissue called an

Answer 8

epimysium