NASM-CPT Muscular System questions with correct answers

What is the layer of connective tissue underneath the fascia that surrounds the muscle? Correct Answer-Epimysium. What is the perimysium? Correct Answer-The connective tissue surrounding fascicles. What is the deepest layer of connective tissue called? Correct Answer-Endomysium. What most closely describes tendons? Correct Answer-Attach muscles to bone and enable muscles to produce force. What role does the sarcomere play for the muscular system? Correct Answer-Produces muscular contraction. What is the thick filament that produces muscular contraction? Correct Answer-Myosin. What are the thin, stringlike filaments that produce muscular contraction? Correct Answer-Actin. What is the communication link between the nervous system and the muscular system known as? Correct Answer-Neural activation. What most accurately describes the role of neurotransmitters? Correct Answer-Transmit electrical impulses from the nerve to the muscle