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What are skeletal muscles associated with?
Movement of the body
What are the 3 types of contractile cells (ie three types of muscle) in the body?
Smooth
Cardiac
Skeletal
Is skeletal muscle striated? Is it voluntary or involuntary?
Yes
Voluntary
Is cardiac muscle striated? Is it voluntary or involuntary?
Yes
Involuntary
Is smooth muscle striated? Is it voluntary or involuntary?
No
Involuntary
What is the name of the connective tissue that wraps an entire muscle?
Epimysium
What makes up skeletal muscle?
Facscicle
What is a fascicle?
A bundle of muscle cells bound together by connective tissue to form a functional unit.
What is the connective tissue that wraps the fascicle?
Perimysium
What is the connective tissue found within a fascicle?
Endomysium
What are the 2 functions of the endomysium
Seperates muscle cells
Electrically insulates muscle cells
What 2 functions do the connective tissue layers of muscles have
Strength
Support
What are the connective tissue layers of muscle continuous with at the ends of muscles
Tendons
what is amother name for a muscle cell?
Fiber
What are myofibrils made up of?
Individual contractile proteins called myofiliments
What are the 2 types of myofiliments
Thin myofiliment
Thick myofiliment
What protein makes up thin myofiliments
Actin
What protein makes up thick myofiliments
Myosin
What are the alternating light and dark bands that result from the arrangement of thick and thin myofiliments
Striations
What is the contractile unit of a muscle cell
Sacromere
List the organized levels of skeletal muscle from largest to smallest
Myofiliments
Myofibril
Muscle cell (musclfiber
Fascicle
Muscle
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