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Anatomy and Physiology Muscle Worksheets Part 1

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General Functional Characteristics of Muscle
a.
Cardiac muscle
e.
Extensibility
b.
Contractility
f.
Skeletal muscle
c.
Elasticity
g.
Smooth muscle
d.
Excitability
 

 1. 

Ability to shorten forcefully.
 

 2. 

Ability to be stretched to normal resting length or even beyond.
 

 3. 

Ability to recooil to original resting length after being stretched.
 

 4. 

Comprises about 40% of the body; under voluntary control; responsible for locomotion, facial expressions, posture, and other body movements.
 

 5. 

Found in the walls of hollow organs, the internal eye muscles, and the walls blood vessels; under involuntary control and capable of spontaneous contractions; functions to regulate urine and blood flow and movement and mixing of food.
 

 6. 

Found only in the heart; under involuntary control, capable of spontaneous contractions; functions to pump blood throughout the circulatory system.
 
 
Skeletal Muscle: Structure                                                       Part A
a.
Muscle cells
d.
Nuclei
b.
Myoblasts
e.
Size
c.
Number
f.
Striated
 

 7. 

Skeletal muscle fibers are skeletal _____.
 

 8. 

Each skeletal muscle fiber is a single cylindrical cell containing several _____ located around the periphery of the fiber.
 

 9. 

Muscle fibers develop from less mature multinucleated cells called _____.
 

 10. 

The _____ of skeletal muscle fibers remains relatively constant after birth;
 

 11. 

therefore enlargement of muscles is caused by an increase in _____, not number.
 

 12. 

As seen in longitudinal section, alternating light and dark bands give the muscle fiber a _____ appearance.
 
 
Skeletal Muscle: Structure                                                      Part B
a.
Endomysium
d.
Perimysium
b.
Epimysium
e.
Sarcolemma
c.
External lamina
 

 13. 

Delicate layer of reticular fibers surrounding muscle fiber’s cell membrane.
 

 14. 

Muscle fiber cell membrane.
 

 15. 

Surrounds each muscle fiber outside the external lamina; consists of loose connective tissue.
 

 16. 

Surrounds a bundle of muscle fibers (fasciculus).
 

 17. 

Surrounds groups of fasciculi (a whole muscle); consists of dense collagenous connective tissue.
 

 18. 

Also called fascia.
 
 
Skeletal Muscle: Structure                                                      Part C
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a.
Endomysium
d.
Muscle fibers (cells)
b.
Epimysium (fascia)
e.
Perimysium
c.
Fasciculus (bundle)
f.
Sarcolemma
 

 19. 

1; see picture
 

 20. 

2
 

 21. 

3
 

 22. 

4
 

 23. 

5
 

 24. 

6
 
 
Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Sarcomeres, and Myofilaments     Part A
a.
Myofibril
d.
Sarcomere
b.
Myofilaments
e.
Sarcoplasm
c.
Sarcolemma
 

 25. 

Cytoplasmic material of a muscle cell (without the myofibrils).
 

 26. 

Threadlike structure that extends from one end of a muscle fiber to the other; consists of sarcomeres joined end-to-end.
 

 27. 

Two types of proteins, actin and myosin, that are organized into sarcomeres.
 

 28. 

Highly ordered unit of actin and myosin myofilaments that extends from one Z disk to another.
 
 
Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Sarcomeres, and Myofilaments     Part B
a.
A band
e.
M line
b.
Actin myofilaments
f.
Myosin myofilaments
c.
H zone
g.
Z disk
d.
I band
 

 29. 

Also called thin myofilaments.
 

 30. 

Filamentous network of protein forming a disklike structure to which actin myofilamentsattach; the boundary of a sarcomere.
 

 31. 

Area that extends from either side of a Z disk to the ends of the myosin myofilaments: the light band.
 

 32. 

Area extending the length of myosin myofilaments within a sarcomere; the light band.
 

 33. 

Area of a sarcomere composed of only myosin myofilaments; no overlap of actin and myosin myofilaments.
 

 34. 

Dark thin band in the middle of the H zone composed of delicate filaments that attach to myosin myofilaments and hold them in place.
 
 
Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Sarcomeres, and Myofilaments    Part C
a.
Cross-bridge
d.
Myosin head
b.
F-actin
e.
Tropomyosin
c.
G-actin
f.
Troponin
 

 35. 

Polymer with two strands coiled to form a double helix.
 

 36. 

Small globular units that combine to form a polymer of F-actin; each unit has an active site to which myosin can bind.
 

 37. 

Elongated protein that covers active sites on the actin molecules.
 

 38. 

Composed of three subunits, each of which binds with either actin, tropomyosin, or Ca2+ ions.
 

 39. 

Contains ATPase, an enzyme that splits ATP into ADP + P and releases energy.
 

 40. 

Structure that is formed when myosin binds with actin.
 
 
Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Sarcomeres, and Myofilaments    Part D
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a.
A band
g.
Myosin head
b.
Actin
h.
Sarcomere
c.
F-actin strand
i.
Tropomyosin
d.
H zone
j.
Troponin
e.
I band
k.
Z disk
f.
Myosin
 

 41. 

1; see picture
 

 42. 

2
 

 43. 

3
 

 44. 

4
 

 45. 

5
 

 46. 

6
 

 47. 

7
 

 48. 

8
 

 49. 

9
 

 50. 

10
 

 51. 

11
 
 
Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Sarcomeres, and Myofilaments    Part E
a.
Sarcoplasmic reticulum
c.
Terminal cisterna
b.
T tubules
d.
Triad
 

 52. 

Tubelike invaginations of the sarcolemma that projects into the sarcoplasm and wrap around sarcomeres near the ends of the A bands.
 

 53. 

Highly specialized, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, the membrane of which actively transports Ca2+ ions from the sarcoplasm into its lumen.
 

 54. 

Enlargement of the sarcoplasmic reticulum next to a T tubule.
 

 55. 

Grouping of a T tubule and its two adjacent terminal cisternae.
 
 
Sliding Filament Model
a.
A bands
e.
I bands
b.
Actin myofilaments
f.
M line
c.
Gravity
g.
Sarcomere
d.
H zones
 

 56. 

During contraction, cross-bridges form between the heads of the myosin molecules and the actin molecules. Cross-bridges forcefully cause the _____ at each end of the sarcomere to slide past the myosin myofilaments
 

 57. 

toward the _____.
 

 58. 

As a consequence, the _____
 

 59. 

and _____ become more narrow,
 

 60. 

but the _____ remain constant in length.
 

 61. 

As the actin myofilaments slide over the myosin myofilaments, the Z lines are brought closer together, and the _____ is shortened.
 

 62. 

During relaxation, cross-bridges are released, and sarcomeres lengthen passively from the force of an antagonistic muscle or _____.
 
 
Neuromuscular Junction
a.
Acetylcholinesterase
e.
Presynaptic terminal
b.
Motor neurons
f.
Synaptic cleft
c.
Neurotransmitter
g.
Synaptic vesicles
d.
Postsynaptic terminal (motor end plate)
h.
Voltage-gated Ca2+ ion channels
 

 63. 

Specialized nerve cells that propagate action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers.
 

 64. 

Enlarged nerve terminal that rests in an invagination of the sarcolemma at the neauromuscular junction.
 

 65. 

Space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle fiber.
 

 66. 

Muscle cell membrane in the neuromuscular junction.
 

 67. 

Spherical sacs in presynaptic terminal; contain acetylcholine.
 

 68. 

Substance (such as acetylcholine) released from a presynaptic terminal), diffuses across the synaptic cleft, and stimulates (or inhibits) an action potential in the postsynaptic terminal.
 

 69. 

Open when action potential reaches presynaptic terminal; Ca2+ ions enter cell and acteylcholine is released from vesicles.
 

 70. 

Enzyme that breaks acetylcholine into acetic acid and choline; prevents accumulation of acetylcholine in the synaptic cleft.
 



 
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