Quiz: Structure of Skeletal Muscle

a band or sheet of fibrous connective tissue that covers, supports, and separates main muscles

• fascia

• epimysium

• perimysium

• endomysium

Works with the fascia to cover main muscle groups

• fascia

• endomysium

• epimysium

• perimysium

The connective tissue that surrounds fascicles.

• fascia

• endomysium

• perimysium

• epimysium

Bundles of muscle fibers wrapped in perimysium

• fascia

• fascicles

• perimysium

• myofibrils

Surrounds individual muscle fibers

• epimysium

• perimysium

• endomysium

• fascia

Microscopic protein filaments that are found in myofibrils.

• filaments

• fascicles

• fascia

• endomysium

The contractile protein that makes up the thick filaments of muscle fibers

• actin

• myosin

• fascia

• fascicles

thin filaments of protein found in a muscle fiber

• myosin

• actin

• fascia

• fascicles

contractile unit of a muscle fiber

• sarcomere

• motor unit

• fiber

• z-line

dark bands composed of thick myosin filaments overlapping thin actin filaments

• I bands

• A bands

• H zone

• Z line