Muscular Flashcards

1
Q

What are the three types of muscle tissues?

A

Cardiac, Skeletal, Smooth

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2
Q

How many muscles are in the human body?

A

Over 600 million muscles

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3
Q

What are the common properties that muscle tissues have?

A

Excitability, Contraction, Elongate

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4
Q

Has an electric gradient which can reserve when stimulated?

A

Excitability

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5
Q

The ability to contract or shorten?

A

Contraction

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6
Q

Shares the capacity to elongate or relax?

A

Elongate

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7
Q

Which muscle tissue are voluntary muscles that work in pairs to move parts of the skeleton?

A

Skeletal muscles

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8
Q

Skeletal muscles are composed of _____ _______ that are bound together in parallel bundles?

A

Muscle fibers

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9
Q

Skeletal muscles are also known as ______ _______ due to their striped appearance under a microscope?

A

Striated muscles

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10
Q

Which muscle tissue are involuntary muscles found in walls of internal organs like stomach, intestines, and blood vessels?

A

Smooth Muscle Tissues

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11
Q

Smooth muscle tissues are also known as _______ ________ because it’s non-striated.

A

Visceral tissue

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12
Q

Smooth muscle cells are ______ and _____ than Skeletal muscle fibers?

A

Wider and shorter

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13
Q

Smooth muscle tissues are found in ______ and ______ that control various openings throughout the body?

A

Sphincters and valves

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14
Q

Which muscle tissue are involuntary muscles found only in the heart?

A

Cardiac muscle

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15
Q

Cardiac muscle cells appearance is?

A

Striated

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16
Q

Only skeletal muscle interacts with the _______ to move the body?

A

Skeleton

17
Q

When contracted the muscles transmit _______ to attached bones?

A

Force

18
Q

Working together muscles and bones act as a system of levers which moves around _______?

A

Joints

19
Q

A small contraction of muscle can produce a large _______?

A

Movement

20
Q

A limb can be extended and rotated around a joint due to?

A

Muscle arrangement

21
Q

Each skeletal muscle fiber contains a bundle of __________?

A

Myofibrils

22
Q

Myofribils composed of multiple repeating contractile units called ?

A

Sarcomeres

23
Q

Myofibrils contain two protein ____________ : thick and thin?

A

Microfilaments

24
Q

Thick filament is composed of protein?

A

Myosin

25
Q

Thin filament is composed of protein?

A

Actin

26
Q

Dark bands (striations) in skeletal muscle are formed when thick and thin?

A

Overlap

27
Q

Light bands occur where ______ is overlapped?

A

Thin

28
Q

Skeletal muscle attraction occurs when thin slides over thick, thus?

A

Shortening the sarcomere

29
Q

When action potential (electrical signal) reaches a muscle fiber, _______ _____ are released?

A

Calcium ions

30
Q

_____________ released from glucose provides energy necessary for the contraction?

A

Adenosine triphosphate

31
Q

Filament model of muscle contraction shows calcium ions bind to myosin & actin, which assist in binding?

A

Myosin head of thick filaments to Actin molecules of thin filaments