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An entire skeletal muscle is surrounded by ___________. Your Answer: (blank)

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A motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it supplies is called a(n) ____________. Your Answer: motor unit A motor unit is a nerve-muscle functional unit, with a motor neuron supplying all the muscle fibers.

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Which of the following does NOT occur during skeletal muscle contraction? Your Answer: Calcium binds to myosin heads. Increase of hemoglobin concentration in muscle fibers is not a process that occurs during muscle contraction.

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What is the ion released from the terminal cisternae that combines with troponin and removes the blocking action of tropomyosin, resulting in the formation of cross bridges? Your Answer: Ca2+ Ca2+ combines with troponin, changes shape, and removes the blocking action of tropomyosin, allowing cross bridges to form.

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Each skeletal muscle fiber is controlled by a neuron at a single ___________. Your Answer: neuromuscular junction The axon of each motor neuron divides as it enters the muscle, and each of these axonal endings forms a branching neuromuscular junction with a single muscle fiber. As a rule, each muscle fiber has only one neuromuscular junction.

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Which of the following best describes the composition of the structure known as a triad in a skeletal muscle fiber? Your Answer: sarcolemma, sarcoplasm, and sarcoplasmic reticulum Correct Answer: terminal cisterna, transverse tubule, and terminal cistern The triad refers to a set of three membranous channels and is formed by a single transverse tubule and two terminal cisternae, or elements of the sarcoplasmic reticulum.

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In the sliding filament model of muscle contraction, the myofilaments slide over each other, resulting in the overlapping of actin and _________. Your Answer: myosin In the sliding filament model, during contraction, actin and myosin filaments overlap to a greater degree, shortening the muscle fiber.

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The dense layer of collagen fibers that surround an entire skeletal muscle is the ___________. Your Answer: epimysium Endomysium surrounds each muscle fiber. Perimysium surrounds each fascicle.

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The functional unit of contraction in a skeletal muscle fiber is the ____________. Your Answer: myofibril Correct Answer: sarcomere A sarcomere is a muscle segment and is the smallest contractile unit of a muscle fiber.

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The space between the neuron and the muscle is the ___________. Your Answer: synaptic cleft The axonal ending and the muscle fiber do not actually touch and remain separated by a space called the synaptic cleft, which is filled with a gel-like substance rich in glycoprotein.

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The term that means a continued mild or partial contraction of a muscle that keeps it healthy and ready to respond is muscle ___________. Your Answer: tetanus Correct Answer: tone Muscle tone is a state of partial, sustained contraction in a muscle that results from tetanic contraction of about 10% of the muscle fibers on a rotating basis. Tetanic contraction is sustained and forceful contraction that results from high-frequency stimulation from the nervous system. A muscle twitch is a brief, maximum contraction of a muscle in response to a stimulus.

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The type of muscle contraction in which the muscle fibers produce increased tension, but the muscle neither shortens nor lengthens, is called _____________. Your Answer: isometric Muscles that maintain upright posture are contracting isometrically.

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Which of the following statements about smooth muscle is true? Your Answer: Fibers are small and spindle-shaped. Smooth muscle fibers are small and spindle-shaped. Cardiac muscle has branching fibers and is striated and involuntary. Skeletal muscle has peripherally located nuclei and has rapid and forceful contractions.

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Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? Your Answer: Skeletal muscles are responsible for the pumping action of the heart. The muscles that are responsible for the pumping action of the heart are the cardiac muscles.

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Which of the following substances increases in quantity during repetitive muscle contraction during oxygen deficit? Your Answer: lactic acid ATP, CP, glucose, and oxygen all decrease during muscle contraction.

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The sequence of electrical changes that occurs along the sarcolemma when a muscle fiber is stimulated is known as the ___________. Your Answer: action potential An action potential is the result of a predictable sequence of electrical changes that occurs along the length of the sarcolemma.

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Which of the following allows recoil of the muscle fiber when contraction ends? Your Answer: elastic filaments Elastic filaments maintain the organization of the A band and provide for elastic recoil when muscle contraction ends.

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Which one of the following binds calcium ions in a smooth muscle, causing contraction? Your Answer: troponin Correct Answer: calmodulin Calmodulin causes smooth muscle contractions.

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All of the following terms refer to the ability to receive and respond to a stimulus, EXCEPT ___________. Your Answer: contractility Contractility is the ability of a muscle to shorten forcibly when adequately stimulated.

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Elasticity refers to the ability of a muscle fiber to ___________. Your Answer: recoil and resume its resting length after being stretched Elasticity is the ability of a muscle fiber to recoil and resume its resting length after being stretched.

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Which of the following muscles is voluntary? Your Answer: the muscle that extends the arm at the elbow

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The muscle that extends the arm at the elbow is skeletal muscle and it is a voluntary muscle.

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of skeletal muscle contraction? Your Answer: It can contract for long periods of time without tiring. Skeletal muscle tires easily.

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A sarcomere is part of a(n) ___________. Your Answer: myofilament Correct Answer: myofibril The myofilaments are part of the sarcomere and are of two types: thick and thin.

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"Cross bridges" that link between the thick and thin filaments are formed by the ___________. Your Answer: F actin Correct Answer: globular head of thick filaments F actin is not responsible for the formation of cross bridges between the thick and thin filaments.

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Which of the following is thought to be an autoimmune disease of acetylcholine receptors? Your Answer: fibromyalgia Correct Answer: myasthenia gravis Fibromyalgia refers to a group of disorders of skeletal muscle caused by chronic inflammation that are not autoimmune in nature.

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The refractory period in which the muscle will NOT contract if stimulated occurs during __________ of the muscle cell. Your Answer: depolarization Correct Answer: repolarization The refractory period occurs during repolarization.

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What is the cause of rigor mortis? Your Answer: calcium influx into the sarcoplasm after death Calcium influx into the cell after death promotes the formation of myosin cross bridges and stiffening of muscles after death, which is known as rigor mortis.

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Where does 95% of the energy needed for contraction come from during moderate exercise? Your Answer: anaerobic glycolysis Correct Answer: aerobic respiration Anaerobic glycolysis is only used for energy during active, prolonged, vigorous exercise.

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The alternating contraction and relaxation of opposing layers of smooth muscle is referred to as ___________. Your Answer: peristalsis Peristalsis is the term used to describe the squeezing action produced when opposing layers of smooth muscle alternate contraction and relaxation.

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Which of the following characteristics is unique to smooth muscle? Your Answer: the absence of striations Only smooth muscle is non-striated.

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