Weird Flex Facts
These are the three basic muscle types:
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth.
This is not a gap in your knowledge, but rather the space in between neuron and muscle cell.
What is the synaptic cleft/neuromuscular junction.
Not to gloss over details, but this structure covers generally everything you need to know about our muscles.
What is the epimysium.
As easy as your ABC's, this band comes with several myofilaments thrown into the mix.
What is the A band.
Don't show weakness on this question. This disorder is due to lack of acetylcholine receptors.
What is Myasthenia Gravis.
These structures connect muscles to skeletal structures.
What are tendons.
This answer should pump you up for several reasons. Here's one: It helps with establishing action potentials in muscle contraction.
What is the Na+ K+ pump.
This structure is buried deep within us, it encapsulates everything you know about muscle fibers.
What is endomysium.
Here's a lighter fact; this band can start actin' up at times.
What is the I Band.
You didn't learn this in grades 1-3. This injury can vary in recovery time depending on how you twist the facts.
What is a sprain.
Not to be short, but this action is performed by muscles regularly in the presence of ATP.
What is contraction.
Ca2+ is the key to exposing the truth on this answer. They are moved out of the way once myosin gets involved.
What are the binding sites troponin and tropomyosin.
These bundles of joy exist to not only bring you happiness but unite muscle fibers.
What are fascicles.
Let's get the band back together. This structure is the combination of thick and thin filaments.
What is the sarcomere.
This disorder doesn't deserve a trophy; but it's certainly caused when muscle fibers go through it.
What is Muscular Dystrophy.
These are the three sites of muscle attachments:
What are bones, cartilage, and connective tissue coverings.
Let's quench your mind with some chemistry. It is the reaction that causes ATP to break down into ADP and Pi. Necessary for the power stroke to occur.
What is ATP hydrolysis.
What is the perimysium.
(Daily Double) This theory states that one day myosin and actin will come together and start a movement.
What is the sliding filament theory.
This disorder is lacking many things, especially proteins for the sarcolemma.
What is Duchenne MD.
These are four functions of the muscle:
What are support, movement, protect internal organs, and maintaining body temperature.
Find the energy to finish this category. It is the component necessary to detach myosin from actin to restart the cycle of muscle contraction.
What is ATP.
This structure won't put you in a dilemma, but it does rhyme with it.
What is the sarcolemma.
This structure doesn't cross any lines, but don't mistake it for any bridges.
What is the Z-line.
(Daily Double) This answer may seem sudden and extreme, but they are compounds that can degenerate mitochondria. Also work with oxygen to finish degenerating muscle function.
What are free radicals.