Muscles

Question 1

What are the three types of muscles?

Answer 1

Skeletal, Cardiac and Smooth

Question 2

What are the functions of skeletal muscle?

Answer 2

Stabilises muscles, movement, protection and production of heat

Question 3

Is skeletal muscle striated in appearance?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Does Cardiac muscle have branching cells?

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What is an example of smooth muscle?

Answer 5

Internal structures

Question 6

What are the different shapes of muscles?

Answer 6

Unipennate, Bipennate, Multipennate, Convergent, parellel strap-like and Parallel fusiform

Question 7

What muscle shape is the pectoralis major?

Answer 7

Convergent

Question 8

What is an example of a bipennate muscle?

Answer 8

Rectus femoris

Question 9

Is cardiac muscle voluntary or involuntary?

Answer 9

Involuntary

Question 10

What is the main cell type of smooth muscle?

Answer 10

Cytoplasm

Question 11

What are the two microfilaments?

Answer 11

Actin and myosin

Question 12

Where is the epimysium located?

Answer 12

Outside of the muscle

Question 13

What type of muscle is found in blood vessels?

Answer 13

Smooth