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Reflexes - Module 5 Flashcards

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1
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What is a reflex action?

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Involuntary response to a sensory stimulus

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What is a reflex arc?

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Pathway of neurones involved in reflex action

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What is the 4 step pathway of a reflex arc?

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  1. Receptor - detects stimuli and starts action potential in sensory neurone
  2. Sensory neurone - carries impulse to spinal cord
  3. Relay neurone - connects sensory to motor neurone in spinal cord/ brain
  4. Monitor neurone - carries impulse to effector to carry out response
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What is a withdrawal reflex?

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Before the Brian realises, muscles have pulled away form danger

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5
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Describe the structure of the spinal cord

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It is a column of nervous tissues protected by spine
Pairs of neurones emerge at intervals

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What are the 4 importance features of reflexes for survival?

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  1. Involuntary responses - doesn’t overload brain with response that is always the same
  2. Don’t have to be learnt - present from birth and provide immediate protection
  3. Extremely fast - reflex arc is short 1 or 2 synapses
  4. Many reflexes are every day actions like balance
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How is the blink reaction used by doctors?

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It is used to determine weather the lower brain stem is still functioning and subsequently weather someone is Brian dead

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When does the blinking relax occur?

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When the Cornea is stimulated and irritated

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What is the purpose of the blink reaction?

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To stop the damage of the Cornea

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On what two other occasions do blink reflexes occur?

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  1. Loud sound
  2. Very bright light
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What is the optical reflex?

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The blink reaction to very bright light to protect lens and retina

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Why is the blink reaction a cranial reflex?

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It occurs in the brain not the spinal cord

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Describe the blinking reflex pathway

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  1. Stimulus - something touches the cornea
  2. Receptors - sensory nerve endings detect stimulus and send impulse along sensory neurone
  3. CNS - impulse is received from sensory neurone and passed from relay neurone to motor neurone
  4. Effector - motor neurone sends impulse to effectors, in this case the muscle causing the eye to close
  5. The response to close the eye is generated
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Describe the knee jerk reflex

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  1. Stimulus - the quadricep muscle is stretched
  2. Receptors - stretch receipts detect stimulus and send a nerve impulse down sensory neurone
  3. CNS - sensory neurone communicates directly with motor neurone in spinal cord
  4. Effectors - motor neurone carries impulse to quadriceps muscle
  5. Response is quadricep muscle contracts so the lower leg moves forward quickly
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What is the function of the knee jerk reflex?

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Works to quickly straighten leg if body detects stretch in quadriceps maintains posture and balance

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What is the 3 types of muscle?

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Skeletal
Involuntary
Cardiac

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What is the role of skeletal muscle?

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Movement of the body

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Is skeletal muscle conscious or involuntary?

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Conscious

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What is the speed and length of skeletal muscle contractions?

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Rapid and short

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What is the arrangement of fibres in skeletal muscle?

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Striated and regularly arranged so muscle contracts in once direction

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Are skeletal muscle cells uninucleate or multinucleate?

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Multinucleated

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Is cardiac muscle involuntary or conscious?

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Involuntary

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What is the structure of cardiac muscle?

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Specialised striated and cells branch and interconnect

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What is the speed and length of cardiac muscle contractions?

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Intermediate speed and length

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Are cardiac muscle fibres multinucleated or uninucleated?

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Uninucleate

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What is the structure of involuntary muscles?

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Non striated and have no regular arrangement

27
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What is the speed and length of contractions in involuntary muscles?

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Long and slow contractions

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Are involuntary muscle fibres uninucleate or multunucleate?

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Uninucleate

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What is sarcolemma?

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The membrane that encloses the muscle fibre

30
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Why do skeletal muscles have multiple nuclei?

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They are much longer than normal cells and are formed from lots of embryonic muscle cells fusing together

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What is the sarcoplasm?

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Shared cytoplasm within muscle fibres

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What are T-tubules?

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Parts of the sarcolemma that fold inwards to spread electrical impulses evenly across sarcoplasm

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What is the role of T-tubules?

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To ensure electrical impulses spread across muscle fibres evenly

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Why to muscle fibres have lots of mitochondria?

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To provide ATP for muscle contraction

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What is special about the endoplasmic reticulum in muscle fibres?

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They have the sarcoplasmic reticulum which is a modified version that contains calcium ions

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What are myofibrils?

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Long cylindrical organelles specialised for contraction

37
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Why are myofibrils aligned parallel?

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To provide maximum force when they contracts as alone they have no power

38
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What are the two protein filaments myofibrils consist of?

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  1. Actin - thinner filament
  2. Myosin - thicker filament
39
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Why do myofibrils have a striped appearance?

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Light and dark bands - the light I bands are where it is just actin and no overlap, and dark A-bands of just myosin present

40
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What is a Z line?

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Line at the centre of each light band

41
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What is a sacromere?

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Distance between adjacent z-lines

42
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What is a H zone?

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Where only myosin is present so it is slightly lighter than the areas where both overlap in the dark bands of myofibrils

43
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Describe the structure of myosin?

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Globular heads which are hinged
Head has binding site for ATP and actin
Lots of myosin tails form the filament

44
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What binding sites are present on actin?

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Actin-myosin binding sites

45
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What proteins block the actin-myosin binding sites on actin?

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TROPOMYOSIN is held in place by TROPONIN

46
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What bonds are formed when a muscle contracts?

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Actin-myosin cross bridges

47
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What triggers a muscle contraction?

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When action potential arrives at a neuromuscular junction

48
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What is a neuromuscular junction?

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Point where a motor-neurone joins the muscle fibre

49
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What is a motor unit?

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All of the muscle fibres supplied by a single motor neurone

50
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When the action potential reaches the sarcoplasmic reticulum what is stimulated?

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Release of calcium ions into sarcoplasm

51
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What do calcium ions do to allow muscles contraction to occur?

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Bind to TROPONIN causing it to change shape and move TROPOMYOSIN away from binding sites on actin allowing actin-myosin bridges to form

52
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What happens to ADP once actin is bound to myosin?

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ADP detaches and ATP molecule binds causing the actin and myosin to detach

53
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What enzyme do calcium ions activate?

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ATPase, which hydrolyses ATP to ADP + Pi which releases energy

54
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What are the 3 main sources of ATP in muscle contraction?

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Aerobic respiration
Anaerobic respiration
Creating phosphate

55
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What is creating phosphate?

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Supply of phosphate readily available for ADP to bind to to make ATP

56
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Describe the sliding filament model?

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Myosin pulls actin towards the centre of the sarcomere, causing the light bands to become narrower, z lines come close together and H zone becomes narrower

57
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How does myosin pull actin across the filament?

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It’s heads which have the binding site will change angle on its hinges

58
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What does Myosin use to return its globular head to its original position?

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ATP

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