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, Functions of muscle - correct ans:Movement of the body, maintenance of posture, production of body
heat, communication, constriction of organs and vessels, contraction of the heart
Major properties of muscle - correct ans:Contractility, excitability, extensibility, and elasticity
Contractility - correct ans:The ability of muscle to shorten forcefully
Excitability - correct ans:The capacity of muscle to respond to a stimulus
Extensibility - correct ans:The ability of a muscle to be stretched beyond its normal resting length and
still be able to contract
Elasticity - correct ans:The ability of a muscle to recoil to its original resting length after it has been
stretched
Skeletal muscle - correct ans:Responsible for locomotion, facial expression, posture, respiratory
functions, and many other body movements, voluntarily
Smooth muscle - correct ans:The most widely distributed type of muscle in the body, involuntary
Cardiac muscle - correct ans:A muscle type found only in the heart, involuntary
Motor neurons - correct ans:Specialized nerve cells that stimulate muscles to contract
Z disk - correct ans:A filamentous network of protein forming a dislike structure for the attachment of
actin myofilaments
Sliding filament model - correct ans:The process where actin and myosin myofilaments do not change
length during contraction of skeletal muscle but, instead, slide past one another, causing the sarcomeres
to shorten