BIOS 252 Week 1 Study Guide

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BIOS 252 Week 1 Study Guide

  • How is skeletal muscle identified?
  • –Answer Long, thin, cylindrical in shape, multinucle- ated, striated, attached via tendons to bones

  • Where is skeletal muscle located?
  • –Answer Attached to bones and skin of the skeleton

  • What control is skeletal muscle under?
  • –Answer Voluntary

  • What is the function of skeletal muscle?
  • –Answer Moves bones as well as the skin of the face

  • How is cardiac muscle identified?
  • –Answer Short, fat, branched, uninucleated, striated, attached to intercalated discs

  • Where is cardiac muscle located?
  • –Answer Found in the heart only

  • What control is cardiac muscle under?
  • –Answer Involuntary

  • What is the function of cardiac muscle?
  • –Answer Pump blood from the heart into the blood vessels

  • How is smooth muscle identified?
  • –Answer Uninucleated, lacks obvious striations, con- tain intermediate filaments, connected to one 1 / 2

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another via gap junctions

  • Where is smooth muscle located?
  • –Answer Various organs of the body (mostly "hol- low" organs or organs that have an opening in the center through which other substances travel)

  • What control is smooth muscle under?
  • –Answer Involuntary

  • What is the function of smooth muscle?
  • –Answer Move substances withing the tube (ex –Answer peristalsis)

  • What is a sarcomere?
  • –Answer Contractile unit from one z-disc to another z-disc

  • What is the sarcolemma?
  • –Answer The plasma membrane of a muscle cell

  • What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
  • –Answer Stores calcium for the cell

  • What is the Z disc (line)?
  • –Answer Provides the anchorage for the actin and titin filaments

  • What is the M-line?
  • –Answer The line found at the center of the thick filament. Provides an anchor for the thick filament

  • What is the A-band?
  • –Answer

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SUBSCRIBE BIOS 252 Week 1 Study Guide 1. How is skeletal muscle identified? –Answer Long, thin, cylindrical in shape, multinucle- ated, striated, attached via tendons to bones 2. Where is skeleta...

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