Muscles

Question 1

Types of muscles

Answer 1

• skeletal
• cardiac
• smooth

Question 2

How are skeletal muscles anchored to bones?

Answer 2

Via tendons

Question 3

Are skeletal muscles under voluntary or involuntary control?

Answer 3

Voluntary

Question 4

Features of muscles tissue

Answer 4

-lie parallel to each other
- made up of may rows of fibre

Question 5

What are the bundles of fibre called?

Answer 5

Fascicles

Question 6

What is the name of the tissue sheath that covers the bundles?

Answer 6

Perimysium

Question 7

What are the individual muscle fibres covered in?

Answer 7

A connective layer called endomysium

Question 8

What is the sarcoplasm?

Answer 8

The cell membrane of a muscle cell

Question 9

The cytoplasm of a muscle cell is called?

Answer 9

Sarcoplasm

Question 10

Why do muscle cells have large amounts of mitochondria?

Answer 10

For ATP production

Question 11

What is the purpose of myoglobin?

Answer 11

Helps the muscle cells store oxygen

Question 12

How does the muscle tissue get a striated appearance?

Answer 12

By actin (thin) and myosin (thick)

Question 13

What happens to abdominal muscles during pregnancy?

Answer 13

-stretched due to growing uterus
-distance between rectum abdominis widens
-connective tissue between rectum abdominis splits = diastasis recti