Mucles

Question 0

What do cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle have in common?

Answer 0

Both are striated with light and dark bands and have elongated cells.

Question 1

What is the difference between cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle?

Answer 1

Cardiac muscle is only found in the heart. Skeletal muscle is found in the limbs, trunk, head, and neck. Cardiac muscle only has one or two nuclei in a cell centrally located. Skeletal muscle has multiple nuclei lying along the periphery of the cells.

Question 2

What makes up the A band?

Answer 2

Actin and myosin

Question 3

What makes up the I band?

Answer 3

Only actin filaments

Question 4

What is the function of the sarcoplasmic reticulum?

Answer 4

Stores and releases calcium that is needed for cross bridge formation

Question 5

What are the three ways in which a skeletal muscle can differ from another?

Answer 5

1) . Types: Slow twitch, fatigue fast twitch resistant, fast twitch fatiguable
2) . Size of PCSA (physiological cross sectional area)
3) . Arrangement: parallel, unipinnate, bipinnate, multipinnate

Question 6

What are the things common to all skeletal muscle tissue? …

Answer 6

Skeletal-voluntary muscles attached to skeletal elements and cartilage.