Muscles and Motion

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Questions

• Why do muscles work in pairs?
• How do muscles and bones work together?
• How do muscle cells differ from nerve cells?
• What are some examples of muscles?
• What are muscles?
• Why is skeletal muscle called voluntary muscle?
• How many smooth muscles are in the human body?
• How do cardiac and smooth muscles differ from skeletal?
• How do antagonistic pairs of skeletal muscles affect bones?
• What is an example of cardiac muscle?
• What are common mistakes students make with the sliding filament model?
• What is the sliding filament model of muscle contraction?
• How do motor units differ?
• What is a motor unit?
• What is troponin?
• What are the characteristic of smooth muscle?
• What are the main functions of a muscle?
• What is infraspinatus tendonitis?
• What is the connective tissue that cushions your bones and enables smooth movements of the skeletal system?
• What is the term that describes the unit of a muscle cell that contains all of the structures necessary to cause contraction?
• What is the involuntary muscle that moves food through the digestive system?
• What bones are found in your axial skeleton?
• What do the cruciate ligaments of the knee do?
• How do muscles cause motion?
• What are synergist muscles?
• What are the different types of muscles?
• What causes muscles to contract?
• What role does skeletal muscle perform in the body?
• What role does smooth muscle play in the body?
• How do muscles allow you to balance?
• Why do a person's muscles become sore after exercise?
• Why does the lack of ATP in muscle cells cause the muscles to become rigid rather than limp soon after death?
• What causes your muscles to move?
• Why do muscles atrophy when they are not used?
• How does cardiac muscle differ from skeletal muscle?
• How does skeletal muscle differ from smooth muscle?
• Where is smooth muscle found in the body?
• What muscles allow you to breath?
• What muscles are used when walking?
• How many muscles are found in the human body?
• If muscle cells don't divide, how can muscles repair themselves?
• What is the basic difference between epithelial tissue and connective tissue? Why are they so different despite the fact that all tissues originate in embryo and an embryo arises from a single fertilised egg cell?
• Where is the skeletal muscle located?
• What does the heart muscle cell do?
• Creatine phosphate functions in the muscle cell by?
• How is the muscle cell’s anatomy of the cytoplasm is unique from other cells?
• What are the striations of a skeletal muscle cell produced by, for the most part?
• What makes a bone cell different from a muscle cell?
• What action causes a muscle to contract?
• Would you expect a nerve cell and a muscle cell to have the same size and shape?
• What is the source of chemical energy used to power a muscle cell in your arm?
• When a muscle cell demands energy to perform its work of contraction, what happens to ATP?
• Why do muscle cells need mitochondria?
• Why are muscle cells multinucleated?
• Why do muscle cells have more mitochondria?
• Why do muscle cells contract?
• Why are muscle cells needed in the intestine?
• Why is the muscle cell long?
• What muscle cells branch?
• What muscle cells are multinucleated?
• How do muscle cells work?
• How does a muscle cell function?
• If a person lifted heavy weights repeatedly with their forearm for three minutes, what is the chemical equation for the process that would occur in their skeletal muscles?