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1
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How is resting potential is created and maintained in a neurone’s membrane?

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  • sodium-potassium pumps move sodium ions out of neurone, membrane isn’t permeable to sodium, so they can’t diffuse back in
  • pumps also move potassium ions in to neurone, membrane is permeable to K ions, so they diffuse back out through K ion channels
  • makes outside of cell positively charged compared to inside
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What happens when a stimulus is detected in neurone cell membranes?

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  • cell membrane excited
  • sodium ion channels open
  • membrane is more permeable to sodium, so sodium diffuse into neurone down gradient
  • inside of neurone is less negative
3
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What happens during depolarisation?

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  • if potential difference reaches threshold, more sodium ion channels open
  • more sodium ions diffuse rapidly into neurone
4
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What happens during repolarisation?

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  • sodium ion channels close and potassium ion channels open
    membrane is more permeable to potassium so ions diffuse out of neurone down gradient
  • membrane starts going back to resting gradient
5
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What happens during hyperpolarisation?

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  • potassium ion channels are slow to close, too many K ions diffuse out of neurone
  • potential difference becomes more negative than resting potential
6
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What is meant by the refractory period?

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  • ion channels are recovering and they can’t be made to open (sodium channels close during repolarisation and potassium channels close during hyperpolarisation)
7
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What is meant by the ‘all or nothing’ nature?

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  • once threshold is reached, an action potential will always fire with same change in voltage
  • if threshold isn’t reached, action potential won’t fire
  • a bigger stimulus won’t cause a bigger action potential, makes them more frequent instead
8
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What is meant by saltatory conduction?

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  • in a myelinated neurone, depolarisation only happens at nodes of Ranvier
  • neurone’s cytoplasm conducts enough charge to depolarise the next node
    impulse ‘jumps’ from node to node
9
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How does an impulse travel along a non-myelinated neurone?

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  • impulse travels as a wave along the whole length of axon membrane
  • slower than saltatory conduction
10
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How does axon diameter affect speed of conduction of action potentials?

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  • action potentials are quicker along axons with bigger diameters, less resistance to flow of ions
  • less resistance = depolarisation reaches other parts of neurone quicker
11
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How does temperature affected speed of conduction of action potentials?

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  • temperature increase = conduction increases

- ions diffuse faster

12
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What is the structure of myosin filaments?

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  • have hinged globular heads, move back and forth

- has binding sites for actin and ATP

13
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What is the structure of actin filaments?

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  • binding sites for myosin heads

- contains tropomyosin, helps myofilaments move past each other

14
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What happens when tropomyosin blocks the actin-myosin binding site?

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  • myofilaments can’t slide past each other because myosin heads can’t bind to actin
15
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What happens when an action potential stimulates a muscle cell in muscle contraction?

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  • depolarises the sarcolemma
  • depolarisation spreads to sarcoplasmic reticulum
  • SR releases stored stored calcium ions into sarcoplasm
  • causes reticulum to release stored calcium ions into sarcoplasm
16
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What happens when calcium ions bind to the protein attached to tropomyosin?

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  • causes protein to change shape
  • pulls tropomyosin out of actin myosin binding site
  • active site is exposed, myosin head binds
17
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What is the bond formed when a myosin head binds to an actin filament?

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  • actin-myosin cross bridge
18
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What enzyme is activated by calcium ions?

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  • ATP hydrolase
19
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What does ATP hydrolase do?

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  • hydrolyses ATP into ADP and Pi to provide energy needed for muscle contraction
20
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What does the energy released from ATP cause the myosin head to do?

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  • causes it to bend

- pulls actin filament along in a rowing-type action

21
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What does another ATP molecule provide energy to break and what happens as a result?

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  • actin-myosin cross bridge

- myosin head detaches from actin filament after its moved

22
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What happens after myosin head detaches from actin filament?

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  • myosin head reattaches to different binding site further along actin filament
  • new cross bridge is formed and cycle is repeated
23
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How do the cross bridges cause the muscle to contract?

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  • many cross bridges form and break very rapidly, pulling actin filament along
  • shortens the sarcomere, causing muscle contraction
24
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What happens when the muscle stops being stimulated?

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  • calcium ions leave binding sites and are moved by active transport back to sarcoplasmic reticulum
25
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What does this cause tropomyosin molecules to do?

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  • move back , so they block actin-myosin binding sites again
26
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What happens to the actin filaments when no myosin heads are attached to them?

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  • slide back into their relaxed position, lengthens sarcomere
27
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In which 3 ways are ATP and phosphocreatine continually generated?

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  • aerobic respiration
  • anaerobic respiration
  • ATP-phosphocreatine (PCr) system
28
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How is ATP generated through aerobic respiration?

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  • via oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria
29
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What type of exercise is aerobic respiration good for?

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  • long periods of low-intensity exercise
30
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How is ATP generated through anaerobic respiration?

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  • rapidly by glycolysis
  • makes pyruvate, converted to lactate by lactate fermentation
  • lactate can build up in muscles and cause muscle fatigue
31
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What type of exercise is anaerobic respiration good for?

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  • short periods of hard exercise e.g sprints
32
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How does the PCr system generate ATP?

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  • By phosphorylating ADP, adding phosphate group taken from PCr
  • generates ATP very quickly
33
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What type of exercise is PCr system good for?

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  • short bursts of vigorous exercise e.g tennis serve
34
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What do you use slow twitch and fast twitch muscles fibres for?

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  • slow twitch - posture (lots in the back)

- fast twitch - fast movement (lots in eyes and legs)

35
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What are slow twitch and fast switch muscle fibres good for in terms of exercise?

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  • slow twitch - endurance activities

- fast twitch - short bursts of speed and power

36
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How fast do slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibres get tired?

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  • slow twitch - long time

- fast twitch - very quickly

37
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How fast and how is energy released from slow twitch and fast twitch fibres?

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  • slow twitch - slowly through aerobic respiration, lots of mitochondria and blood vessels supply muscles w/O2
  • fast twitch - quickly through anaerobic respiration using glycogen, few mitochondria or blood vessels
38
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What colour are slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibres?

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  • slow twitch - reddish, rich in myoglobin

- fast twitch - whitish, don’t have much myoglobin