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WorksheetsMuscle Contraction Structures
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is X? It receives electrical signals from axon and releases neurotransmitters (chemical signals) into the synapse.
dendrite
axon
cell body
axon terminal
What is X? It is the physical space between two neurons across which a nerve impulse is transmitted by a neurotransmitter.
axon terminal
synaptic cleft
synaptic vesicle
motor unit
motor end plate
What is X? It is a small secretory vesicle that contains a neurotransmitter, is found inside an axon and releases it contents into the synaptic cleft after fusing with the membrane.
axon terminal
synaptic cleft
synaptic vesicle
motor unit
motor end plate
What is this structure? It consists of one motor neuron and all the muscle fibers its stimulates.
axon terminal
synaptic cleft
synaptic vesicle
motor unit
motor end plate
What is this structure? It is a modified are of the muscle fiber membrane at which a synapse occurs. A single muscle fiber only has one _______________.
axon terminal
synaptic cleft
synaptic vesicle
motor unit
motor end plate
Identify the red structures? A fibrous protein that forms (together with actin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells.
actin
myosin
tropomyosin
troponin
cross bridge
Identify the blue structures? a protein that forms (together with myosin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells.
actin
myosin
tropomyosin
troponin
cross bridge
Identify X? A protein that covers the mysoin binding sites on the actin filament in a relaxed muscle, preventing contraction.
actin
myosin
tropomyosin
troponin
cross bridge
Identify the pink structures? It is a globular protein complex, occuring with tropomyosin in the thin filaments of muscle tissue. Binds to calcium ions, moving tropomyosin away from the myosin binding sites on actin filaments.
actin
myosin
tropomyosin
troponin
cross bridge
Identify the structure. It binds to thin filamentous actin, and uses ATP hydrolysis to generate force and "walk" along the thin filament.
actin
myosin head
tropomyosin
troponin
cross bridge
Identify the structure. It is the high-energy/attached state when myosin is loaded with potential energy and attached to actin.
actin
myosin head
tropomyosin
troponin
cross bridge
This term refers to when myosin and actin contract to "pull the trigger".
power stroke
contraction phase
relaxation phase
isometric contraction
