The Muscular System

What are the three main types of muscle tissue found in the human body?

• Cardiac, smooth, and voluntary

• Skeletal, involuntary, and cardiac

• Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal

• Striated, smooth, and cardiac

What are the two primary actions that muscles are capable of performing?

• Pushing and pulling

• Contracting and relaxing

• Extending and flexing

• Stretching and shortening

What is the correct hierarchical organization of a skeletal muscle, from largest to smallest component?

• Muscle, Muscle Fascicles, Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Myofilaments

• Muscle, Myofibrils, Muscle Fibers, Muscle Fascicles, Myofilaments

• Muscle, Muscle Fibers, Myofilaments, Myofibrils, Muscle Fascicles

• Muscle, Myofilaments, Muscle Fibers, Myofibrils, Muscle Fascicles

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What was the key finding by the two independent research teams regarding muscle contraction?

• Muscle contraction is caused by protein strands changing shape like a recoiling spring.

• Muscle contraction is caused by the movement of one protein over another.

• Muscle contraction is solely dependent on the presence of ATP.

• Muscle contraction involves the lengthening of protein filaments.

What is the role of calcium ions in initiating muscle contraction?

• They directly bind to myosin heads, causing them to pull actin.

• They provide the energy for the myosin heads to move.

• They change the shape of regulatory proteins, allowing myosin to bind to actin.

• They transport ATP to the myosin heads.