Characteristics of Muscle
There are how many characteristics of muscle?
What is four.
The whole muscle is described by which term?
What is muscle belly.
What is muscle contraction.
The type of contraction resulting in muscle shortening.
What is concentric contraction.
The muscle you would find in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle.
The characteristic that results in muscle returning to its original shape.
What is elasticity.
The myofibril is enclosed by which membrane layer?
What is endomysium.
The ion most important to kickstarting the SFT.
What is Calcium.
The type of contraction where the muscle length does not change.
What is isometric.
An example of naming muscles by their location.
What is tibialis anterior
The characteristic of muscle that allows shortening and lengthening of the muscle.
What is contractibility.
The myofibril is made up of what adjacent contractile sections?
What is sarcomeres.
The protein calcium binds with to displace tropomyosin.
What is Troponin.
An example of isometric contraction.
What is plank, wall sit, flexed arm hang.
An example of naming muscles by their size.
What is gluteus maximus.
The muscles ability to respond to stimulus exhibits which muscle characteristic?
The perimysium surrounds which part of the muscle?
What is muscle fascicles.
The correct phrase for the action of contraction during the Sliding Filament Theory.
What is powerstroke.
The type of contraction when an athlete performs a tricep extension.
What is concentric contraction.
An example of naming muscle by the direction of their muscle fibres.
What is obliques, transverse abdominis, rectus abdominis.
The athlete performs a drop squat and their muscle stretches upon landing exhibiting which muscle characteristic?
What is extensibility.
The muscle fibres are found in which part of the muscle?
The process when the myosin heads attach to the myosin binding sites on actin.
What is cross-bridge attachment.
The antagonistic muscle to the quadriceps.
The part of the sarcomere representing the actin.
What is the I-band.