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The ability of skeletal muscle to shorten with force is   Contractility  
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The capacity of skeletal muscle to respond a stimulus is   Excitability  
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The ability to be stretched is   Extensibility  
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Ability to recoil to their original resting length after they have been stretched is   Elasticity  
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Muscles help produce heat essential for maintenance of normal   Body temperature  
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Epimysium   Each skeletal muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath  
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Fascia   Is another connective tissue located outside the epimysium, it surrounded and sperates muscles  
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Muscle is composed of numerous visible bundles called   Muscle fasciculi  
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Fascicle are surrounded by loose connective tissue called   Perimysium  
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The fasciculi are composed of single muscle cells called   Fibers  
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Each fiber is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called   Endomysium  
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The cytoplasm of each fiber is filled with   Myofibrils  
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Myofibrils   Threadlike structure that extends from one end of the fiber to the other  
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Myofibrils consist of two major kinds of protein fiber   Actin myofilaments Myosin myofilaments  
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Action myofilaments   Thin myofilaments, resemble two minute strands of pearls twisted together  
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Mysoin myofilaments   Thick myofilaments, resemble bundlesbof minute golf clubs  
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Action and myosin myofilaments form highly ordered units called   Sarcomeres  
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Sarcomeres are joined end to end to form the   Myofibril  
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The sarcomere is the basic structural and functional unity of the   Muscle  
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The arrangement of actin and mysoin give a   Banded appearance  
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Each side of the Z line is a light area called the   I band, consists of actin  
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A band extends the length of   Mysoin  
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In the center of each sarcomere is a light area called the   H zone  
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H zone only consists of   Mysoin  
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Mysoin myofilaments are anchored in the center of the sarcomere at a dark staining band called   M line  
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The charge difference across the membrane is called   Resting membrane potential  
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Motor neurons   Nerve cells that carry action potentials to skeletal muscle fibers  
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Axons enter the muscle and   Branch  
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Each branch that connects to the muscle forms   Neuromuscular junction or synapse  
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A single motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates are   Motor unit  
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Many motor units form a   Single muscle  
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Neuromuscular junction   Formed by an enlarged nerve terminal resting in an indentation of the muscle cell membrane  
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The enlarged nerve terminal is   Presynaptic terminal  
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The space between the presynaptic terminal and the muscle cells is   Synaptic cleft  
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The space between the presynaptic terminal and muscle fiber Is   Postsynaptic terminal  
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Each presynaptic terminal contains   Synaptic vesicles  
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Each presynaptic terminal contains synaptic vesicles that secreate a synaptic clet called   Acetylcholine  
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When an actin potential reaches the nerve terminal it causes the synaptic vesicles to   Realese acetylcholine into the synaptic cleft by exocytosis  
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The acetylcholine diffuses across the synaptic cleft binds to receptor molecules in the   Muscle cell membrane  
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The combination of acetylcholine with its receptor causes an influx of sodium ions into the   Muscle fiber  
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The acetylcholine released into the synaptic cleft between neuron and muscle cell is   Rapidly broken down by an enzymes  
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Occurs as actin and mysoin myofilaments slide past one another causing sarcomeres   To shorten  
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When sarcomeres shorten it causes the   Muscle to shorten  
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The sliding of action myofilaments past mysoin myofilaments during contraction is called   Sliding filament mechanism of muscle contraction  
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Muscle twitch   A contraction of an entire muscle in response to as stimulus that causes the sctin potential in one or more muscle fibers  
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A muscle fiber will not respond to stimulus until the stimulus reaches a level called   Threshold  
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Once the stimulus reaches the threshold level   Muscle fibers will contract maximally  
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Phenomenon is called   All or none response  
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Time between application of a stimulus to a motor neuron and the beginning of a contraction is the   Lag phase  
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Time of contraction is the   Contraction phase  
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Time during the which the muscle relaxes is the   Relaxation phase  
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Tetany   Where the muscle remains contracted without relaxing  
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The increase in number of motor units being actiaved is called   Recruitment  
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ATP (adenosine triphosphate)   Needed for energy for muscle contraction  
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ATP is prodeced in   The mitochondria  
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Shot lived and unstable   ATP  
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Degenerates to the more stable   ADP (adenosine diphosphate)  
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When at rest they can't stockpile ATP but they can store another high energy molecule called   Creating phosphate  
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Anaerobic respiration   Without oxygen  
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Aerobic respiration   With oxygen  
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Oxygen debt   The amount of oxygen needed in chemical reactions to convert lactic acid to glucose and to replenish the depleted stores of creating phosphate stores in muscle cells  
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Muscle fatigue   Results when ATP is used during muscle contraction faster than it can be produced in the muscle cells  
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Two types of muscle contraction   Isometric Istonic  
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Isometric   (Equal distance) length of the muscle does not change, but amount of tension increases during contraction process  
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Isotonic   (Equal tension) the amount of tension produced by the muscle is constant during contraction, but the length of the muscle changes  
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Muscle tone   Refers to constant tension produced by muscles of the body for long periods of time  
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Fast-twitch fibers   Contract quickly and fatigue quickly, well adpated to perform anaerobic metabolism. Ex. White meat of chicken breast  
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Slow-twitch fibers   Contract more slowly and are more resistant to fatigue, they are better suited for aerobic metabolism. Ex.dark meat legs of chicken  
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Attatcmen points of the muscle is connected to the bone by   A tendon  
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Origin(head)   The most stationary end of the muscle  
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Insertion   The end of the muscle undergoing the greatest movement  
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The portion of the muscle between the orgin and the insertion is   The belly  
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Muscles that work together to accomplish specific movements are   Synergists  
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Muscles that work in opposition to one another are   Antagonists  
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Amount a group of synergits, if onemuscke plays the major role in accomplishing the desired movement   It is the prime mover  
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