Types Of Muscle 2

Question 1

What are the types of muscles

Answer 1

• Cardiac muscle
• skeletal muscle
• smooth muscle

Question 2

Cardiac: makes up what, voluntarily or involuntarily, shape?

Answer 2

• Makes up the myocardium (muscular tissue in the heart that pumps blood)
• involuntarily
• short branching cells, have a single nucleus

Question 3

In cardiac muscle, cells are connected to each other at the

Answer 3

Intercalated disc

Question 4

Smooth tissue: makes up what, voluntarily or involuntarily, shape?

Answer 4

• makes up walls of organs and blood vessels
• involuntarily
• short spindle shapes cells, has single nucleus

Question 5

In smooth muscle appears microscopically

Answer 5

Non-striated

Question 6

Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones by

Answer 6

Tendons

Question 7

Skeletal muscles: makes up what, voluntarily or involuntarily, shape

Answer 7

• voluntarily
• long cylindrical cells, multi nucleated
• attaches to skeleton by tendons

Question 8

How does the skeleton muscle tissue appear under the microscope

Answer 8

Striated