Tissues
Characteristics of Muscle Tissue
Structure of a Skeletal Muscle
Neuromuscular Junction
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What type of muscle tissue exhibits completely involuntary control?

What is smooth muscle?

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Which characteristic of muscle tissue allows it to return to its original shape after being stretched or contracted?

What is elasticity?

100

A muscle cell is also known as a

What is a muscle fiber?

100

What is the name of the neurotransmitter released by the axon terminal at the neuromuscular junction?

What is acetylcholine (aCH)

100

The part of the sarcomere that attaches to the Z line

What is actin?

200
What type of tissue is found in your intestines and blood vessels?

What is smooth muscle?

200

Which characteristic of muscle tissue enables it to receive and respond to stimulation from nerves?

What is exitability?

200

What type of tissue connects muscle to bone to a bone?

what is a tendon

200

What is the space between a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle fiber known as 

What is synaptic cleft?

200
The part of the sarcomere that contains only thick myofilaments

What is H zone

300

What type of tissue has striations?

What is skeletal and cardiac muscle?

300

Which characteristic of muscle tissue is demonstrated when a cross country runner stretches their muscles without damaging them before running their race?

What is extensibility?

300

Which connective tissue sheath wraps around a fascicle

What is perimysium

300

__________________ are the binding sites on the outside of a muscle fiber that receive neurotransmitters

What is receptors

300

What happens to the length of the actin and myosin during sarcomere contraction?

What is "they do not change length"

400

What type of muscle tissue causes movements such as walking, jumping or swimming?

What is skeletal muscle?

400

Which characteristic of muscle tissue allows it to shorten?

What is contractility?
400

What is the proper order of structures of a skeletal muscle from largest to smallest?

What is muscle - fascicle - muscle fiber - myofibril - sarcomere - myofilament

400
What is the cell membrane of a muscle fiber?

What is sarcolemma

400

The regulatory protein that blocks myosin binding sites

What is Tropomyosin

500

What type of tissue is found in the heart?

What is cardiac muscle tissue?

500
Your brain sends a message to your hamstrings to contract. Your hamstrings respond. Which characteristic is this?

What is excitability?

500

What are the two myofilaments?

What is Actin and myosin

500

What regulates levels of Ca2+ ions inside a muscle fiber?

What is sarcoplasmic reticulum

500

The myofilament that has hands to pull the other one

What is myosin

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