Muscle Tissue and Sliding Filament Mechanism
1. What is the name for the study of muscle?
a. Myology
2. What are the three types of muscle?
a. Cardiac
b. Smooth
c. Skeletal
3. Which muscle type is most abundant in the body?
a. Skeletal
4. What is the function of muscle?
a. Moves skeleton, makes heart beat, constricts blood vessels, performs peristalsis,
regulates temperature, regulates blood flow, stores glucose, maintains posture,
5. What are the properties of muscle?
a. Excitable - reacts
b. Contractible - shortens
c. Extensible - stretches
d. Elasticity - back to original shape
6. What is the name for multiple muscles in a location with shared function?
a. Muscle group
7. What are the components of a muscle group?
a. Muscle group
b. Muscle
c. Fascicles
d. Myofiber (muscle cells)
e. Myofibril
f. Myofilament
8. What is another name for a muscle cell?
a. Myofiber
9. What are the two most common myofilaments?
a. Actin
, b. Myosin
10. Which myofilament are dark bands?
a. Myosin
11. Which myofilament are light bands?
a. Actin
12. Which myofilament is thick?
a. Myosin
13. What myofilament is thin?
a. actin
14. What is the term for the coverings over muscle?
a. Mysium
15. What is mysium made up of?
a. Connective tissue
16. What is the function of mysium?
a. To allow individual groups to slide against one another
17. What is the name of the covering that goes around individual cells?
a. Endomysium
18. What is the name of the covering that goes around fascicles?
a. Perimysium
19. What is the name of the covering that goes over muscles?
a. Epimysium
20. What is the secondary coating on top of epimysium on muscles?
a. Fascia
21. What is the origin of a muscle?
a. The point of attachment that does not move when the muscle contracts.
22. What is the insertion of a muscle?
a. The point of attachment that does move when a muscle contracts.
23. What is action?
a. The movement type
24. What is innervation?
a. The nerve supply to that muscle
,25. What is another name for agonist?
a. Prime mover
26. What is an agonist?
a. Part that is constricting, causing the action.
27. What is the antagonist?
a. The opposing muscle, opposite to action.
28. Do muscles push?
a. No muscles only contract
29. What is a synergist?
a. Helper mover
30. What is an isotonic contraction?
a. Muscle changes in length
b. Force of contraction overcomes resistance
31. What are the two types of isotonic contraction?
a. Eccentric
b. Concentric
32. What happens during eccentric isotonic contraction?
a. Muscle gets longer
33. What happens during concentric isotonic contraction?
a. Muscle gets shorter
34. What is isometric contraction?
a. Muscle doesn't change in length
b. Force of contraction that cannot overcome resistance
35. What is a twitch?
a. A single contraction signal followed by relaxation
36. What is tetanus?
a. A contraction that is not followed by relaxation
37. What are the two types of twitches?
a. Fast
b. Slow
38. What is another name for slow twitch muscle cells?
, a. Red
39. What is another name for fast twitch muscle cells?
a. White
40. What makes slow twitch muscle red?
a. Greater blood supply
41. What is the function of the slow twitch muscle cell?
a. Made up of red muscle that is slow to contract but is for prolonged periods of
time.
42. What is the function of a fast twitch muscle cell?
a. Made up of white muscle that contracts quickly for a short duration.
43. Can you make white muscle into red and vice versa?
a. Yes
44. What holds a muscle to bone?
a. Tendon
45. What does the tendon attach to on the bone?
a. The periosteum
46. What attaches bone to bone?
a. Ligaments
47. What is aponeurosis?
a. Flat. broad tendon
48. What is the origin of a muscle?
a. The non movable point of attachment for muscle
49. What is the insertion?
a. The movable point of attachment for muscle
50. What is hypertonia?
a. Muscle cell becoming more rigid
51. What is hypotonia?
a. Muscle cell becomes less rigid
52. What is hypertrophy?
a. Getting larger
53. What is hypotrophy?
1. What is the name for the study of muscle?
a. Myology
2. What are the three types of muscle?
a. Cardiac
b. Smooth
c. Skeletal
3. Which muscle type is most abundant in the body?
a. Skeletal
4. What is the function of muscle?
a. Moves skeleton, makes heart beat, constricts blood vessels, performs peristalsis,
regulates temperature, regulates blood flow, stores glucose, maintains posture,
5. What are the properties of muscle?
a. Excitable - reacts
b. Contractible - shortens
c. Extensible - stretches
d. Elasticity - back to original shape
6. What is the name for multiple muscles in a location with shared function?
a. Muscle group
7. What are the components of a muscle group?
a. Muscle group
b. Muscle
c. Fascicles
d. Myofiber (muscle cells)
e. Myofibril
f. Myofilament
8. What is another name for a muscle cell?
a. Myofiber
9. What are the two most common myofilaments?
a. Actin
, b. Myosin
10. Which myofilament are dark bands?
a. Myosin
11. Which myofilament are light bands?
a. Actin
12. Which myofilament is thick?
a. Myosin
13. What myofilament is thin?
a. actin
14. What is the term for the coverings over muscle?
a. Mysium
15. What is mysium made up of?
a. Connective tissue
16. What is the function of mysium?
a. To allow individual groups to slide against one another
17. What is the name of the covering that goes around individual cells?
a. Endomysium
18. What is the name of the covering that goes around fascicles?
a. Perimysium
19. What is the name of the covering that goes over muscles?
a. Epimysium
20. What is the secondary coating on top of epimysium on muscles?
a. Fascia
21. What is the origin of a muscle?
a. The point of attachment that does not move when the muscle contracts.
22. What is the insertion of a muscle?
a. The point of attachment that does move when a muscle contracts.
23. What is action?
a. The movement type
24. What is innervation?
a. The nerve supply to that muscle
,25. What is another name for agonist?
a. Prime mover
26. What is an agonist?
a. Part that is constricting, causing the action.
27. What is the antagonist?
a. The opposing muscle, opposite to action.
28. Do muscles push?
a. No muscles only contract
29. What is a synergist?
a. Helper mover
30. What is an isotonic contraction?
a. Muscle changes in length
b. Force of contraction overcomes resistance
31. What are the two types of isotonic contraction?
a. Eccentric
b. Concentric
32. What happens during eccentric isotonic contraction?
a. Muscle gets longer
33. What happens during concentric isotonic contraction?
a. Muscle gets shorter
34. What is isometric contraction?
a. Muscle doesn't change in length
b. Force of contraction that cannot overcome resistance
35. What is a twitch?
a. A single contraction signal followed by relaxation
36. What is tetanus?
a. A contraction that is not followed by relaxation
37. What are the two types of twitches?
a. Fast
b. Slow
38. What is another name for slow twitch muscle cells?
, a. Red
39. What is another name for fast twitch muscle cells?
a. White
40. What makes slow twitch muscle red?
a. Greater blood supply
41. What is the function of the slow twitch muscle cell?
a. Made up of red muscle that is slow to contract but is for prolonged periods of
time.
42. What is the function of a fast twitch muscle cell?
a. Made up of white muscle that contracts quickly for a short duration.
43. Can you make white muscle into red and vice versa?
a. Yes
44. What holds a muscle to bone?
a. Tendon
45. What does the tendon attach to on the bone?
a. The periosteum
46. What attaches bone to bone?
a. Ligaments
47. What is aponeurosis?
a. Flat. broad tendon
48. What is the origin of a muscle?
a. The non movable point of attachment for muscle
49. What is the insertion?
a. The movable point of attachment for muscle
50. What is hypertonia?
a. Muscle cell becoming more rigid
51. What is hypotonia?
a. Muscle cell becomes less rigid
52. What is hypertrophy?
a. Getting larger
53. What is hypotrophy?
