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The knee cap is a cup-shaped bone called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The collar bone is properly called the:Read the answer and worked solution →When a muscle moves a bone, the joint acts as the:Read the answer and worked solution →Skull bones fuse with sutures and cannot move. This joint type is:Read the answer and worked solution →The joint between the atlas and axis that lets you shake your head is a:Read the answer and worked solution →An autoimmune disease attacking the neuromuscular junction and causing weakness is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the axial bonesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the synovial jointsRead the answer and worked solution →Steer into the muscle laneRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the bone wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Willed or automaticRead the answer and worked solution →Which muscle typeRead the answer and worked solution →Type the bone countRead the answer and worked solution →Locomotion bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In Paramoecium, cilia help in locomotion and also move food through the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which organism uses its tentacles both to capture prey and for locomotion?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cytoskeletal elements take part in amoeboid movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Coordinated movement of cilia in the human trachea mainly helps to:Read the answer and worked solution →Water current in the canal system of sponges is kept up by:Read the answer and worked solution →Roughly what share of an adult human's body weight is muscle?Read the answer and worked solution →Muscle bundles of a skeletal muscle are held together by a collagenous layer called:Read the answer and worked solution →A muscle fibre is called a syncitium because its sarcoplasm:Read the answer and worked solution →The striated look of a myofibril comes from the arrangement of:Read the answer and worked solution →The light I-band of a myofibril mainly contains:Read the answer and worked solution →Thick filaments are held together in the middle of the A-band by the:Read the answer and worked solution →In a resting sarcomere, the central part of thick filaments not overlapped by thin filaments is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Each thin filament is made of two helically wound strands of:Read the answer and worked solution →F actin is a polymer of monomeric units called:Read the answer and worked solution →In a meromyosin, the globular head with its short arm is called:Read the answer and worked solution →A motor neuron together with the muscle fibres it supplies forms a:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The knee cap is a cup-shaped bone called the:

  1. Clavicle
  2. Sternum
  3. Patella
  4. Scapula
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Correct answer: C. Patella

1. A small bone covers the knee in front. 2. It is shaped like a cup. 3. It is the patella. _Source: syllabus Biology, Chapter 20, Locomotion and Movement._

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The collar bone is properly called the:

  1. Scapula
  2. Sternum
  3. Humerus
  4. Clavicle
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Correct answer: D. Clavicle

1. It is a long slender bone with two curves. 2. It is part of the pectoral girdle. 3. It is the clavicle. _Source: syllabus Biology, Chapter 20, Locomotion and Movement._

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When a muscle moves a bone, the joint acts as the:

  1. Fulcrum point
  2. Lever bar
  3. Load point
  4. Pulley wheel
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Correct answer: A. Fulcrum point

1. Muscle force is applied to the bone. 2. The bone turns about the joint. 3. So the joint is the fulcrum. _Source: syllabus Biology, Chapter 20, Locomotion and Movement._

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