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Muscles
Muscle structure
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| White meat is used for; | anaerobic/sprinting |
| Red meat is used for; | aerobic/ long distance |
| Muscles that are opposites | antagonistic pairs |
| contracts to cause extension | extensor/tricep |
| flexor | bicep |
| Tendons connect | muscle to bone |
| ligament connect | bone to bone |
| Cartilage | covers the end of the bone |
| Basic unit of skeletal muscle | sarcomere |
| How do i draw a contracted sarcomere | draw it with shorter actin. |
| Where does the nerve impulse arrive at? | Neuromuscular junction |
| Where are the calcium ions released from? | sarcoplasmic reticulumn |
| What do the calcium ions attach to? | troponin |
| Why does the tropomyosin move? | expose the mysosin binding site |
| What happens when ATP is added | mysosin heads are released |
| What occurs when the myosin heads are bound | Cross bridges are formed |
| What happens after the heads are released | heads recock calcium ions return to sarcoplasmic reticulumn |