Muscles and Muscle Tissue

Question 1

Skeletal muscle is multinucleated. True or False?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What are functions of muscle tissue?

Answer 2

Produce body movements, generate heat, and stabilize body positions

Question 3

What are the four key properties of muscle?

Answer 3

Electrical Excitability, Contractility, Extensibility, and Elasticity

Question 4

Muscles have the ability to shorten or contract. This is known as ____.

Answer 4

Contractility

Question 5

Which type of muscle tissue would best be described as long, thin, cylindrical, multinucleated, and voluntary?

Answer 5

Skeletal Muscle

Question 6

Which characteristics are shared by both cardiac and smooth muscle?

Answer 6

Involuntary and Uninucleated

Question 7

The thick filament of skeletal muscle is made up of which of the following types of protein?

Answer 7

Myosin

Question 8

What is the organization of muscle tissue in a skeletal muscle, from smallest to largest?

Answer 8

Filament, Myofibril, fiber, fascicle, skeletal muscle

Question 9

Which component of connective tissue separates individual muscle fibers from one another?

Answer 9

Endomysium

Question 10

Which component of connective tissue is the outer layer encircling the entire muscle?

Answer 10

Epimysium

Question 11

Which component of connective tissue surrounds fascicles?

Answer 11

Perimysium

Question 12

What are the two regulatory proteins?

Answer 12

Troponin and Tropomyosin

Question 13

What are the two contractile proteins?

Answer 13

Thin and Thick Filament

Question 14

What innervation allows the action potential to penetrate inside of the cell?

Answer 14

Transverse Tubule (T Tubule)