Muscle and Connective tissue

Question 1

Muscle tissue

Answer 1

highly cellular, well vascularised, and responsible for body movement

Question 2

Skeletal msucle

Answer 2

Attached to bones - contraction pulls on bone creating movement
Muscle cells - muscle fibres, multinucleated, nucleus sits on the periphery of muscle cells
Striated - comes from myofilaments
Voluntary control

Question 3

Cardiac muscle

Answer 3

Found in the walls of the heart; pump blood around body
Striated with intercalated disks - ensure muscle contract in a coordinated fashion
Under involuntary control

Question 4

Smooth muscle

Answer 4

Walls of hollow organs; stomach, bladder, uterus, blood vessels
No striations, one nucleus per muscle cell
Involuntary control

Question 5

Nervous tissue

Answer 5

Main component of the nervous system
Neurons, supporting tissues (neuroglia)
Neurons - cell body, dendrites (input), axon (conducting/transmitting info)