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Given: The striated pattern is due to the regular arrangement of thick and thin filaments in the muscle cells. The thick myosin filaments are responsible for the A-band. Task: Indicate whether the following statement is true or false. Statement: Upon muscle contraction, the A-band shortens.
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What is the scientific term for the cell membrane of a muscle cell?
What is the name of the space between two Z-lines?
Fun facts: Where do you find the most active human muscles (contractions/day)?
Fun facts: Where do you find the smallest human muscle?
What is the scientific term for the cytoplasm of a muscle cell?
Given: Muscle cells can be individual cells, fused cells (syncytium) or individual cells that behave like a unit. Question: Check ALL muscle tissues that form a syncytium OR behave like one. There can be more than one correct answer.
What is the definition of a sarcomere? It is the distance between two...
Fun facts: Which muscles are responsible for goose bumps or goos pimples (German Gänsehaut, Dutch kippevel, French chair de poule), the reaction of skin to e.g. cold?
What is the function of the muscle spindles that can be found in skeletal muscle?
What is the name of the fine sheath of connective tissue surrounding the individual fibres of skeletal muscle?
The four terms below describe properties of muscle types. Which term (one correct answer) belongs to a different muscle type than the other three?
Fun facts: Which is the longest muscle of the human body?
Given: The striated pattern is due to the regular arrangement of thick and thin filaments in the muscle cells. The thick myosin filaments are responsible for the A-band. Task: Indicate whether the following statement is true or false. Statement: Upon muscle contraction, the length of the A-band does not change.
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Given: The wall of a vessel and the wall of the heart have a similar structure.
Task: Match the appropriate layers of the vessel wall with those of the heart wall.
