A Level PE Muscle Fibre Types

Give three components of slow oxidative muscle fibre

Give three components/aspects of Fast glycolytic muscle fibres

What is the role of mitochondria in the cell? In your answer explain how it achieves this?

What does Myoglobin do?

Which muscle fibre type has:

Large neurons

Lots of fibres

Few mitochondria

Small numbers of capillaries

Low mitochondria density

Which muscle fibre type has:

High mitochondria count

High capillary count

High myoglobin count

Small number of neurons

Low number of fibres

Which muscle fibre type has:

Moderate mitochondria levels

Moderate myoglobin

High number of capillaries

Large neurons