Skeleton, Muscle, and Movement Flashcards
Challenges of multicellular organisms
Continuous development
Must have ways to transport materials to sometimes distant cells
Must coordinate with other cells
Cells perform few functions
Cannot survive indiidually
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Gene for type 1 collagen is broken
Glue doesn’t hold
Advantage of being multucellular
Have more control over the environment in which the cells reside
Epithelial tissue
Form the surface of animals and line their body cavities
Connective Cells
Produce matrix that support other cells
Muscle cells
Contract, give animals ability to move
Nerve cells
Transmit signals through body
Exoskeleton
Outside of body
Protection and prevent water loss
Bone tissue
Connective tissue surrounded by collagen/calcium matrix
Calcium minerals
Provide rigidity and strength
Collagen
Provides resistance to tension, reduce brittleness
What cells produce collagen?
Osteocytes (connective cells)
Marrow
Source of blood cells and other important cells (osteocytes)
Bone remodelling and what 2 things affect it
Change in thickness
Exercise and hormones
How much calcium do we need?
1000 mg/day
Cartilage
Support/supplement bone
Nose, ears, rib cage
more flexible
Cells that produce collagen
Ligaments
Flexible sheets of tissue
Bone to bone
Hydrostatic skeletons
Use fluid pressure to become rigid
tongue
soft bodied animals (worm, jellyfish)
Contractile unit of a muscle
Sarcomere
Myosin
Head
Actin
Z - Disk
During muscle contraction…
Myosin heads walk on actin, pull z disks closer together
Shorten, muscle shortens
z disk
Where actin filaments attach to, serve as anchoring point of actin in a sarcomere
Osteoarthritis
Progressive degenerative condition that wears down cartilage
ACL tear
The femur twists one way, tib/fib twists other way
Axial Skeleton
Support + protect axis
Skull, spine, ribs
Appendicular skeleton
Arms and legs
basically everything else
Compact bone
Forms hard, white outer region
Spongy bone
Inside, most extensive at knobby ends
Cushion
Exercise and bones
More used = larger ridges for attachmentt
Less = increase rate of ostteoclasts
Cardiac Muscle
Vertebrate heart. Banded appearance.
Differentiated,
interconnecting branches to produce coordinated contractions
Smooth Muscle
Lacks bands. Involuntary Contractions.
Pull plasma membranes, pull in plasma membrane and shrink the size of the cell.
Responsible for digestion, goosebumps.
Hypertrophy
Increase in muscle thickness
Chitin
tough polysaccharide, interlinked by proteins, forms exoskeletons of anthropods
Purpose of streamline shape
Minimize drag, opposes locomotion