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Ligaments attach muscles to bones.

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Which statement is correct about the summation of simple twitches?


A) They can occur from the long duration of the action potential in a muscle fibre.
B) They reduce the tension in a muscle.
C) They result from the slow stimulation of a muscle fibre.
D) The twitches from action potentials add together.

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What is NOT a method of gradation of skeletal muscle contraction?


A) twitch summation
B) motor unit recruitment
C) stimulating variable portions of each motor unit
D) varying the number of motor units stimulated

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Which statement concerning in twitch summation is correct?


A) The muscle fibre is stimulated again before the action potential has returned to resting potential.
B) The muscle fibre is stimulated again before the filaments have completely returned to their resting position.
C) Stronger muscle contractions occur with stronger action potentials.
D) Weaker muscle contractions in spite of stronger action potentials.

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MATCHING Indicate which of the muscle proteins in skeletal muscle is associated with the item in question by using the following code (options may be used more than once or not at all) . -shape consists of two globular heads attached to a tail


A) actin only
B) myosin only
C) actin and myosin
D) troponin-tropomyosin complex
E) actin, troponin, and tropomyosin
F) actin, myosin, troponin, and tropomyosin

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What is the functional unit of skeletal muscle?


A) largest contractile component of a muscle fibre
B) area between two Z lines
C) sarcoplasmic reticulum
D) area between two I bands

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What results from disruption of a motor system that supplies inhibitory presynaptic inputs to motor neurons?


A) uncoordinated, clumsy movements
B) spastic paralysis
C) paraplegia
D) suppression of reflex activity

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Which statement is correct for the T tubules?


A) They form the Z lines.
B) They store Ca2+.
C) They provide a means of rapidly transmitting the action potential to the central portions of the muscle fibre.
D) They allow for nutrients to be carried into the cell.

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What causes the striated appearance of skeletal muscle?


A) regular arrangement of the T tubules running transversely through the muscle fibre
B) presence of the Z lines extending down the middle of the I bands
C) presence of gap junctions
D) regular arrangement of highly organized thick and thin filaments

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Skeletal muscles are capable of limited repair after injury.

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Muscle fibres are some of the longest cells in the body.How long can they be?


A) 1 to 2 micrometres
B) 2 to 4 micrometres
C) 10 to 100 micrometres
D) 500 to 1,000 micrometres

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The ____________________ component is the noncontractile tissue part of a muscle.

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Which events involved in muscle cell contraction are sequenced in the correct order? 1) Sodium channels open,allowing sodium to flow in. 2) Impulse reaches axon's synaptic knob. 3) ACh binds to receptors on sarcolemma. 4) Synaptic vesicles fuse with neuron's membrane and release ACh via exocytosis. 5) If enough sodium moves into the muscle cell,an impulse (action potential) develops.


A) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
B) 2, 1, 3, 4, 5
C) 2, 4, 3, 1, 5
D) 3, 4, 5, 1, 2

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Which statement concerning the length-tension relationship of skeletal muscle is INCORRECT?


A) When a muscle is maximally stretched, it can develop the most tension upon contraction because the thin filaments can slide a maximal distance.
B) Maximum tension can be developed if the muscle is at its lowest at the onset of contraction.
C) In the body, the relaxed length of muscle is at its optimal length.
D) When the initial length of muscle prior to contraction becomes very short, tension is decreased during contraction because of thin filament overlap, because the thick filaments are compressed against the Z lines, and because not as much Ca2+is released during excitation-contraction coupling.

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Indicate which characteristic applies to which type of muscle by using the answer code (options may be used more than once or not at all) . -tension remains constant


A) isometric contraction
B) isotonic contraction

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Indicate which bands are being described in each statement by writing the appropriate letter(s) in the blank by using the answer code (options may be used more than once or not at all) . -remains the same size during muscle contraction


A) A band
B) I band
C) H zone

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Where does a muscle originate?


A) main, thick part of the structure
B) middle, thin part of the structure
C) movable end of attachment
D) stationary end of attachment

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____________________ provide the most ATP molecules for use by muscle fibres contracting over a long period of time.

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The only energy source that can be used directly by the contractile machinery of a muscle fibre is ____________________.

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Match the sarcomere component with the correct characteristic by using the answer code (options may be used more than once or not at all) . -contains partially overlapping thick and thin filaments


A) Z line
B) A band
C) I band
D) H zone

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