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AHBSF Muscles
muscle terms from Bio book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a tough connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone or to another body part | Tendon |
| a muscle that bends a limb or other body part | Flexor |
| a muscle that extends a joint | Extensor |
| a multinucleate muscle cell, especially of skeletal or cardiac muscle tissue | Muscle Fiber |
| a fiber that is found in striated muscle cells and that is responsible for muscle contraction | Myofibril |
| the basic unit of contraction in skeletal and cardiac muscle | Sarcomere |
| the most abundant protein in muscle tissue and the main constituent of the thick filaments of muscle fibers | Myosin |
| a protein responsible for the contraction and relaxation of muscle | Actin |