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6.2 Quiz: Microscopic Anatomy of Skeletal Muscles

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is shown in the image?

a)

neuron

b)

myelin sheath

c)

segment of a muscle fiber

d)

blood vessel

2.

What is the arrow pointing at?

a)

bare zone

b)

thin filament

c)

thick filament

d)

myofibril

3.

The plasma membrane of a skeletal muscle cell is called the:

a)

sarcomere

b)

centromere

c)

sarcolemma

d)

dilemma

4.

What feature(s) gives skeletal muscle cells their striped appearance?

a)

Dark (A) band

b)

thin (actin) filament

c)

thick (myosin) filament

d)

Light (I) band

5.

What is shown in the image?

a)

myofibril

b)

microfilaments

c)

sarcoplasmic reticulum

d)

cross bridges

6.

Tiny contractile units that make up myofibrils are called:

a)

sarcolemma

b)

cross bridges

c)

myosin

d)

sarcomeres

7.

There are two types of threadlike protein ______________________ within each of our "boxcar" sarcomeres.

a)

cross bridges

b)

myofilaments

c)

microfilaments

d)

sarcoplasmic reticulum

8.

What feature of skeletal muscles "link the thick and thin filaments together during contraction"?

a)

myosin

b)

actin

c)

cross bridges

d)

sarcomeres

9.

What feature of myofilaments is shown at the green arrow?

a)

thick filaments, myosin

b)

cross bridges

c)

bare zone

d)

thin filaments, actin

10.

What feature of myofilaments is shown at the red arrow?

a)

cross bridges

b)

thick filaments, myosin

c)

thin filaments, actin

d)

bare zone