Muscular System

Question 1

What is the muscular system composed of

Answer 1

Muscular tissue that is specially made to contract or shorten and produce movement when stimulated

Question 2

Involuntary muscles

Answer 2

Muscles that are not under conscious control
1. Heart beating
2. Breathing

Question 3

Voluntary muscles

Answer 3

Muscles that are under your control
1. Getting out of a seat
2. Flipping a page on a book

Question 4

3 types of muscles

Answer 4

Skeletal muscles, smooth muscles, cardiac muscles

Question 5

Skeletal muscles

Answer 5

1.voluntary
2. Attached to bones
3. Protect internal organs
4. Straited and tubular

Question 6

Smooth (visceral) muscles

Answer 6

1.Involuntary
2. One nucleus
3. Tapered
4. Digestive tract, bladder

Question 7

Cardiac muscles

Answer 7

1.Involuntary
2. Only in the heart
3. Has smooth and skeletal muscle properties
4. One nucleus
5. Striated, tubular and branched

Question 8

Hierarchy of muscle structure

Answer 8

Muscle—> muscle fibre bundle—> muscle fibre—> myofibrils—> myofilaments( where contraction takes place)
Myosin(thick)
Actin(thin

Question 9

Two types of