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Musculoskeletal system

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Comprised of muscles and skeltons

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Muscles and skeletons are ____ that produce movment

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effectors

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3 types of vertebret muscle

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skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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Skeletal muscle involves

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voluntary movement, breathing

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Cardiac involves

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beating of the heart

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Smooth muscle

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involuntary, movement of internal organs

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What does it mean when skeletal muscles are “striated”

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they have “strips” of muscle cells

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skeletal muscle cells are called

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muscle fibers

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Muscle fibers are extremely ____, _____ cells

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large - multinucleated

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Skeletal muscles form by _____ of _____

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fusion of embryonic myoblasts

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One muscle consists of many _____ bundled together by connective tissue

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muscle fibers

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Each muscle fiber has several ______

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myofibrils

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Myofibrils consist of

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bundles of actin and myosin filaments

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The contractile proteins

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Actin and myosin

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Actin are ____ filaments

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thin

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Myosin are ____ filaments

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thick

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Sarcomere

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overlapping actin and myosin filaments

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Each myofibril consists of repeating units called

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Sarcomeres

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Titin and what does it do?

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the largest protein in the body that holds bundles of myosin filaments in place

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Describe the “sliding filament mechanism”

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myosin heads bind to specific sites on actin molecules to form cross bridges, then change conformation to cause the actin filments to slide 5-10 nm

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During the sliding filament mechanism mysoin heads _____ to specific sites on ____ to form ______

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bind; actin; crossbridges

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Muscle contration is initiated by ______ from a ____ neuron at the ______

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action potentials, motor neruon, neuromuscular junction

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A motor unit

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all the muscle fibers that are activated by one motor neuron

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Muscle cells are inhibited or excited?

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excited

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the plasma membrane of the muscle cells can ____ action potentials

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conduct

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____ is released by the motor neuron at the ______ and opens _____ in the _______

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ACH; neuromuscular junction; ion channels; motor end plate

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The chemical synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle cell is

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the neuromuscular junction

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Action potentials move through fibers via

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T-tubules (transverse tubules)

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T-tubules descend into the

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sarcoplasm (muscle fiber cytoplasm)

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The sarcoplasm is

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the muscle fiber cytoplasm

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T-tubules run close to the

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sarcoplasmic reticulum

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The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is

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a closed compartment that surrounds every myofibril, the ER of muscle cells

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the SR has ____ pumps

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Ca2+

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At rest here is a ____ concentration of Ca in the _____ of the SR

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high concentration; lumen

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An action potential will ____ Ca channels and Ca flows ______ of the SR and triggers the interaction of

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open; out; action and myosin

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Actin filaments also include

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tropomyosin and troponin

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3 subunits of troponin bind to ___,__,___

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actin, tropomyosin, and Ca2+

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At rest, _____ blocks binding sites on actin

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tropomyosin

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Troponin changes conformation when

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Ca2+ is released and binds to it

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Tropomyosin is bound to _____ and the twisting of it exposes ___ on actin

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troponin; binding sites

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When ___ pumps remove Ca2+ from the sarcoplasm, ____ stops

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Ca2+; contraction

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The cardiac muscle is also striated

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True

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The cardiac muscle cells are ____ than skeletal muscle cells and have how many nuclei?

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smaller; just one nucleus

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Cardiac muscle cells can withstand high pressures due to

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branching and interdigitating

46
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What initiates and coordinates heart contractions?

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pacemaker and conducting cells

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The heartbeat is generated by the heart muscle itself which means that it is

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myogenic

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Heart transplantations are possible because

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the autonomic NS modifies the rate of pacemaker cells, but isnt nescessary

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Cardiac and smooth muscle cells are arranged in

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sheets

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cells in cardiac sheets are in electrical contact vi

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gap junctions

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the cell sheets allow an action potential to ___ to all others in the sheet, so the heart can _____ contractions

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spread; sync

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what connects the cytoplasm of two neighboring cells and allow electrical communication?

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gap junctions

53
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Gap junctions in cell sheets allow ___ and ____ muscle cells to contract simultaneously

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cardiac and smooth

54
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The simplest muscle cells

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smooth muscle cells

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smooth muscle cell contains just

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one cell/nucleus

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They are “smooth” muscle cells because

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actin/myosin are not as regularly arranged

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Smooth muscle cells are under ____ control

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Autonomic NS control

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What is a twitch

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minimum unit of contraction by skeletal muscle

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Twitch is measured in terms of

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tension

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A _____ generates a twtich

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a single action potential

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If action potentials are close together the twitches add up.

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True

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How do twitches build up?

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calcium pumps can’t clear out all the Ca from the sarcoplasm before the next one comes and it piles up

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Tetanus is

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when APs are so frequent that this is always calcium in the sarcoplasm

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How long a muscle fiber can sustain tetanic contraciton depends on ____ supply

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ATP

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What is needed to break actin/mysoin bonds and “re-cock” the heads?

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ATP

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To maintain contraction…

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actin-myosin bonds have to keep cycling

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3 systems for muscles to obtain ATP

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Immediate, glycolytic, oxidative

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Immediate system

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uses pre-formed ATP and creatine-phosphate

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Glycolytic system

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metabolizes carbs to pyruvate and lactic acid; anaerobic

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Oxidative system

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carbs and fatty acids to H2O and CO2 (aerobic)

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Creatine phosphate (CP) ___ energy in a ____ bond that can transfer to ADP

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stores energy in a phosphate bond

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ATP+CP is the ____ system

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immediate

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The ATP from the ____ immediate system is exhusted within seconds; ___ yield of ATP

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immediate; low yield of ATP

74
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In the glycolytic system, enzymes are in the _______

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sarcoplasm/cytoplasm

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ATP generated during glycotic system is not directly available to myosin

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False, its FAST!

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Is glycotic system aerobic or anaerobic?

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Anerobic

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Glycotic system has a ___ ATP yild

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Low as well

78
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Immidate and glycolytic systems provide energy for _____

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less than one minute

79
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Oxidative phosphorylation occurs in the

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Mitochondria

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Oxidative method makes _____ of ATP and is ____

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a lot of; aerobic (CO2) is created

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ATP must ____ from the mitochondria to the ____ in the cytoplasm, therefore it is ____ than the other two systems

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diffuse; mysoin; slower

82
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Two main types of skeletal muscle fibers

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slow and fast twitch

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The slow twitch muscle fibers are the _____ or ___ muscle

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oxiative or red

84
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ST fibers contain ____ which is the oxygen binding protein

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myoglovin

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ST fibers contain many _____ and _____

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Mitochondria and blood-vessels

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In ST fibers, max tension develops ____ and is _____ to fagitue

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slowly; highly resistant

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ST fibers have reserves of what?

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Glycoghen and fat

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ST fibers and produce ATP as long as ____ is avaialble

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oxygen

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ST fibers are good to use with ____ excercise

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aerobic exercise

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Fast-twitch muscle fibers are ____ or ___ muscles

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glycolytic/white

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Complete opposite of ST fibers - _____ mitochonrdria, blood vessels, myoglobin

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LITTLE

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FT fibers develop max tension ____ and fatigue ______-

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faster and faster

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FT fibers can replenish ATP for prolonged contraction

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FALSE

94
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What determines muscle strength and endurance?

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The proportion of ST and FT fibers

95
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Genetic heritage plays a role in determining

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Proportion of ST and FT fibers

96
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Training a muscle can alter muscle properties

A

True (to an extent)

97
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Anerobic exercise increases muscle _____.

A

Strength

98
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What happens when a muscle gets stronger?

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new actin/myosin filaments form, muscle gets JACKED

99
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Aerobic exercise increases muscle _____

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Endurance

100
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What happens when muscle gains endurance?

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oxidative capacity is enhanced due to the increase in mitochondria, blood vessels, myoglobin, and enzymes

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