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most of the tissue in the body is
Skeletal muscle
Attaches to the skeleton or associated connective tissue
Muscle
make up skeletal muscles
Muscle fibers
relatively large, long, cyndrical cells
Muscle fibers
Long rod shaped organelle that nearly fill the sarcoplasm
Myofibrils
Cylindrical structures
Myofibrils
Two types of myofilaments
Acting and myosin
Slide past each other during muscle activity to bring about shortening or contraction of the muscle cells
Acton and myosin
contractile units of muscles
sarcomeres
band of muscle fibers
fascicle
Junction between an axon of modern neuron, and a muscle fiber
Neuromuscular junction
Tough dense, regular connective tissue
Tendon
A neuron, and all the muscle fibers it stimulates
Motor unit
separate neuron and muscle fiber
Synaptic cleft
neurotransmitter
acetylcholine