General Muscle Info.
Myofibrils are arranged into these groups?
What are myofilaments?
Cardiac muscles are located in this organ.
What is the heart?
Skeletal muscles are attached to what parts of the body?
What are the skeleton and bone?
The two body systems where smooth muscle are found.
What are the digestive and the circulatory systems?
This is the tissue where muscle to muscle attachments occur.
What is connective tissue?
Muscles convert chemical energy into what kind of energy through muscle contractions?
What is mechanical energy?
This word decribes the cardiac muscle appearance?
What is striated?
This word describes an action that requires thought.
What is voluntary?
True or false: Smooth muscle is voluntary.
False.
This is what tendons are made of.
What is elastin?
The release of this compound causes muscles to contract.
What is calcium?
This word describes an action that does not require thought.
What is involuntary?
These are the two muscle fiber groups.
What are red muscle fibers and white muscle fibers?
This is the word to describe involuntary muscle contractions that propels food through the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
Tendons attach these kind muscles to bone.
What are skeletal muscles?
These are the individual cells that make up a muscle?
What are muscle fibers?
The cardiac muscle functions to pump this substance through the heart?
What is blood?
These muscle fibers are known are fast twitch fibers.
What are white muscle fibers?
Give an example of a body organ where smooth muscle is found.
What are the bladder, uterus, stomach, and intestines.
This is what collagen is harvested from.
What are animals?
Muscles break down this compound to do physical work.
What is ATP?
This is another word for heart muscle.
What is myocardium.
These muscles require oxygen to function.
What are red muscle fibers.
Smooth muscle aids in the use of these parts of the circulatory system.
What are veins and arteries?
This is the most abundant protein in the body.
What is collagen?