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Muscle Contraction Structures

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is X? It receives electrical signals from axon and releases neurotransmitters (chemical signals) into the synapse.

a)

dendrite

b)

axon

c)

cell body

d)

axon terminal

2.

What is X? It is the physical space between two neurons across which a nerve impulse is transmitted by a neurotransmitter.

a)

axon terminal

b)

synaptic cleft

c)

synaptic vesicle

d)

motor unit

e)

motor end plate

3.

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.

a)

axon terminal

b)

synaptic cleft

c)

synaptic vesicle

d)

motor unit

e)

motor end plate

4.

What is this structure? It consists of one motor neuron and all the muscle fibers its stimulates.

a)

axon terminal

b)

synaptic cleft

c)

synaptic vesicle

d)

motor unit

e)

motor end plate

5.

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 _______________.

a)

axon terminal

b)

synaptic cleft

c)

synaptic vesicle

d)

motor unit

e)

motor end plate

6.

Identify the red structures? A fibrous protein that forms (together with actin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells.

a)

actin

b)

myosin

c)

tropomyosin

d)

troponin

e)

cross bridge

7.

Identify the blue structures? a protein that forms (together with myosin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells.

a)

actin

b)

myosin

c)

tropomyosin

d)

troponin

e)

cross bridge

8.

Identify X? A protein that covers the mysoin binding sites on the actin filament in a relaxed muscle, preventing contraction.

a)

actin

b)

myosin

c)

tropomyosin

d)

troponin

e)

cross bridge

9.

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.

a)

actin

b)

myosin

c)

tropomyosin

d)

troponin

e)

cross bridge

10.

Identify the structure. It binds to thin filamentous actin, and uses ATP hydrolysis to generate force and "walk" along the thin filament.

a)

actin

b)

myosin head

c)

tropomyosin

d)

troponin

e)

cross bridge

11.

Identify the structure. It is the high-energy/attached state when myosin is loaded with potential energy and attached to actin.

a)

actin

b)

myosin head

c)

tropomyosin

d)

troponin

e)

cross bridge

12.

This term refers to when myosin and actin contract to "pull the trigger".

a)

power stroke

b)

contraction phase

c)

relaxation phase

d)

isometric contraction