FINAL EXAM |GUARANTEED PASS
What is the neural circuitry that travels outside the spinal cord? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Peripheral nervous system
Which of the following is a sensory receptor within a muscle that detects
changes in length and helps regulate contraction? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Muscle spindle
Which of the following are branches of the cell body that act as
receivers, collecting information from other neurons? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Dendrites
A cascade of events, resulting in muscle contraction, is triggered when
which of the following chemical neurotransmitters binds to receptors on
the muscle? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Acetylcholine
Which division of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary
movement? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Somatic nervous system
Which type of motor unit can contract for many hours, or even days if
necessary? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Slow (S) of Motor Unit
,Which type of motor unit has a large motor neuron and consists of a
large bundle of type IIx muscle fibers? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Fast fatigable (FF)
Voluntary movement starts in the - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
cerebral cortex
Which of the following is the process that allows a muscle spindle to
contract at the same rate as the muscle where it resides? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Alpha-gamma co-activation
How many nerves are contained within the peripheral nervous system,
which includes all the neurons and glia outside of the brain and spinal
cord? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 43 pairs
The muscular system includes how many muscles? - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Approximately 650
Which muscle fiber type are the largest, and produce the most amount of
force? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Type IIx
The cross-bridge cycle requires energy, which is provided by -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ ATP hydrolysis.
The function of epimysium is to - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ protect
muscle from friction against other muscles or bone.
,With regard to mitochondrial density, which muscle fiber type has a very
small amount of mitochondria? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Type IIx
Regarding the make-up of a person's muscle fiber ratio, which of the
following is correct? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ It can't be changed
to a large degree
It is currently theorized that training with heavy loads causes -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ equal growth of type I and type II fibers.
Which of the following functions like girdles and guy wires to provide
an interconnected structure? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Fascia
Current research demonstrates what three possible mechanisms for
inducing hypertrophy? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Mechanical
tension, metabolic stress, muscle damage
The functional units that can make a muscle shorten are: - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ Sarcomeres
Which of the following is found within the appendicular skeleton? -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Bones of the upper and lower extremities
Movement between two adjacent vertebrae is made possible by -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Facet joints
, Wolff's Law describes the way - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ the body
responds by increasing or decreasing the bone's diameter
In addition to being a barrier to pain, what important role does cartilage
play? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Bone development
Which of the following are mature bone cells that maintain a bone's
matrix? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Osteocytes
Bone-on-bone contact that results in joint pain and stiffness from a loss
of articular cartilage is - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ osteoarthritis
Elastin, an important elastic protein found in all connective tissues,
allows those tissues to - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ regain their
original shape after being stretched out
Which of the following terms refers to the main part or the shaft of a
long bone? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ diaphysis
The frontal plane is an imaginary plane that divides the body into which
of the following segments? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Anterior and
Posterior
The angle that a joint rotates around its axis is referred to as -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ the direction of rotation