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A textbook lists the muscle tissues of the body: skeletal, smooth and:Read the answer and worked solution →Contraction begins when myosin pulls on which protein?Read the answer and worked solution →Every muscle needs one molecule to keep contracting. That molecule is:Read the answer and worked solution →Under a microscope, skeletal muscle fibres are unusual because each one is:Read the answer and worked solution →Standing still still uses muscle, because skeletal muscle also resists:Read the answer and worked solution →Shivering warms the body because muscle contraction also generates:Read the answer and worked solution →Inside a muscle, fibres are gathered into bundles. Each bundle is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The thin sheath of collagen around one single muscle fibre is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A tendon fuses at the bone end with the:Read the answer and worked solution →A broad flat sheet that works like a tendon is called an:Read the answer and worked solution →The plasma membrane surrounding a muscle fibre is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The functional unit of a muscle fibre, running from one Z line to the next, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Actin strands are thinner than myosin, so actin forms the:Read the answer and worked solution →Myosin has more mass and greater width, so it forms the:Read the answer and worked solution →The place where a motor neuron terminal meets a muscle fibre is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Acetylcholine crosses a tiny gap between nerve and muscle. That gap is the synaptic:Read the answer and worked solution →Tunnels dipping into the fibre so the signal reaches inside are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The ion whose arrival in the sarcoplasm actually starts contraction is:Read the answer and worked solution →Filaments pulling past one another to shorten a muscle is described by the:Read the answer and worked solution →A sprinter's first few seconds of effort are powered by ATP from:Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly what share of the ATP for resting muscle comes from aerobic respiration?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the muscle partsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the ATP sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the muscle gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the muscle wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Wrapping or signallingRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the muscle ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Muscle bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A textbook lists the muscle tissues of the body: skeletal, smooth and:

  1. Cardiac
  2. Cartilage
  3. Capsular
  4. Cambial
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Correct answer: A. Cardiac

1. Two of the three are named. 2. The heart has its own muscle type. 3. That type is cardiac. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, Chapter 10, Muscle Tissue._

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Contraction begins when myosin pulls on which protein?

  1. Alanine
  2. Actin
  3. Acetone
  4. Albumin
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Correct answer: B. Actin

1. Two filament proteins slide past each other. 2. Myosin is the puller. 3. The one pulled is actin. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, Chapter 10, Muscle Tissue._

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Every muscle needs one molecule to keep contracting. That molecule is:

  1. ATP
  2. APR
  3. ABS
  4. AMU
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Correct answer: A. ATP

1. Contraction costs energy. 2. One molecule is the universal energy currency. 3. That molecule is ATP. _Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, Chapter 10, Muscle Tissue._

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