One of the following statements about muscular responses is not true. Choose that one.

When a person is fully at rest, none of her muscles are contracting.

A muscle fiber contracts in an all-or-none fashion.

There is a slight latent period that occurs between when the stimulus arrives at the muscle and when the muscle contracts.

Muscles will add motor units to a contraction, increasing the overall force of contraction.

Which of these statements is correct regarding muscle contraction?

The crossbridges bind to the actin and shorten the sarcomeres.

Muscle contraction continues for long periods after nervous stimulation ceases.

Dystrophin is not needed to strengthen the contracting muscle cell.

A motor unit is made up of _______________.

a motor neuron and the muscle fiber it innervates

all muscle fibers within a given muscle

all the neurons going into a particular section of the body

The segment of a myofibril that is called a sarcomere runs from _______________.

one end of the skeletal muscle to the other

Muscular System

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Biology

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11th Grade - University

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Practice Problem

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Hard

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NGSS

HS-LS2-3

Standards-aligned

Charles Martinez

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32 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What
muscle is this?

Triceps Brachii

Biceps Brachii

Biceps Femoris

Rectus Femoris

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

what muscle is this?

Rhomboid Major

Trapesiuz

Internal Oblique

Latissimus Dorsi

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What muscle

is this?

Gastrocnemius

Tibialis Anterior

Extensor Digitorum Longus

Plantaris

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The cardiac muscle is

Voluntary

Involuntary

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

abduct

to move away from the midline of the body

a contractile protein of muscle

change in electrical potential of a muscle fiber

to move toward the midline

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

adduct

to move toward the midline

oxygen requiring

to move away from the midline of the body

not requiring oxygen

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Identify this type of muscle

smooth

cardiac

skeletal

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