Support And Movement Flashcards
Skeletal muscles
Voluntary
Striations
Multiple nuclei
Smooth muscles
No striations
Slow contractions
Involuntary
Walls of hollow organs and veins
Cardiac muscle
Striated
Involuntary
Intercalated disks for coordinated contractions
Muscle cells are called ___, and each of those are made from _____, and those are made of segments called ___
Fibers
Myofibrils
Sacromere
Myofibrils are made from two kinds of myofilaments, Thick and thin filaments.
Thin filaments of Actin (grabbed onto)
Thick filaments of myosin (Grabby)
Actin has two types of regulatory protien
Tropomyosin (covers myosin binding sites)
Tropinin (Can be activated to move Tropomyosin out of the way)
Sacromeres have two lines
Z lines on the ends
M line in the middle
Earth worms and Annelids use _____ two move muscles in a rhythmic pattern
Peristalsis