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Which type of muscle is controlled voluntarily, is multi-nucleated and has striated
cells -Correct Answers ✔-skeletal muscle
Endomysium surrounds a muscle fascicle -Correct Answers ✔-False
What is a triad made of -Correct Answers ✔-2 cisternae and 1 T tubule
What is the smallest functional unit of a muscle -Correct Answers ✔-Sarcomere
Myofilaments are actin and myosin -Correct Answers ✔-True
The H band contains -Correct Answers ✔-myosin only
What happens to H and I bands during muscle contractions -Correct Answers ✔-
Get smaller
The A band gets bigger -Correct Answers ✔-False
M lines move closer during a muscle contraction -Correct Answers ✔-False
Which of the following is correctly paired with its antagonist -Correct Answers ✔-
Triceps brachii: biceps brachii
Which muscle is the most medial of the erector spinae muscles -Correct Answers
✔-Spinalis
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The trapezius muscle helps stabilize, raise, retract, depress, and rotate scapula -
Correct Answers ✔-True
What arm muscle is the Prime Mover of arm flexion, rotates the arm medially, and
adducts the arm against resistance -Correct Answers ✔-Pectoralis Major
Which muscle is NOT a rotator cuff muscle
-Supraspinatus, Teres Major, Infraspinatus, Teres Minor -Correct Answers ✔-
Teres Major
Which forearm flexor adducts the hand -Correct Answers ✔-Flexor capri ulnaris
Brachioradialis is the most ____ of the forearm -Correct Answers ✔-Lateral
What is the longest muscle in the body (flexes, abducts, and laterally rotates thigh,
flexes knee) -Correct Answers ✔-Sartorius
Muscles that move the thigh originate where -Correct Answers ✔-On the backbone
The powerful knee extensors are located on the posterior portion of the leg -
Correct Answers ✔-False
Which is not part of the hamstring group
-Semimembranosus, semitendinosus, biceps femoris, Gemellus -Correct Answers
✔-Gemellus
Piriformis, obturator, and gemellus all rotate thigh lateral and abduct hip -Correct
Answers ✔-True
Semimebranosus is deep to the semitendinosus -Correct Answers ✔-True
What muscle is a prime mover of dorsiflexion -Correct Answers ✔-Tibalis anterior
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What muscle is not part of the triceps surae muscles? (calf) -Correct Answers ✔-
Plantaris
The tissue type that pushes blood through the arteries and veins of the circulatory
system -Correct Answers ✔-Cardiac Muscle
Which of the following are properties of muscle tissue
a. Excitability and Extensibility
b. Contractility and Elasticity
c. All of the above
d. None of the above -Correct Answers ✔-All of the above
What is the ability to contract over a range of resting lengths?
a. Excitability
b. Contractility
c. Extensibility
d. Elasticity -Correct Answers ✔-Extensibility
All of the following are functions of skeletal muscle except:
a. Produce skeletal movement
b. Maintain body temperature
c. Maintain posture and body position
d. Regulates entering and exiting of materials
e. All of the above -Correct Answers ✔-All of the above
What surrounds each muscle fiber, bends each muscle fiber to its neighbor, and
supports capillaries that supply individual fibers?
a. Epimysium
b. Perimysium
c. Fascicle
d. Endomysium -Correct Answers ✔-Endomysium
Thick filaments are known as:
a. Actin
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