Muscles

Question 1

Types of muscles

Answer 1

Skeletal, cardian, smooth

Question 2

Skeletal muscles

Answer 2

-Voluntary control, striated appearance
-Has tendons! Attach mostly to bone
-Function = move skeleton

Question 3

Cardiac muscles

Answer 3

Heart muscle = striated = involuntary control

Question 4

Smooth muscles

Answer 4

Lines wall of blood vessels and hollow organs = stomach + intestines = involuntary = not straited

Question 5

Properties of muscle tissue (3)

Answer 5

Contractility, extensibility, elasticity

Question 6

Contractility

Answer 6

Ability to contract, stimulated by nerve = generates force
Muscle tissue = only tissues that has this property
Arranged in pairs= one muscle contracts = shortens, other muscle= stretched

Question 7

extensibility

Answer 7

Muscle stretches behind normal resting length

Question 8

elasticity

Answer 8

Ability to return to normal