Muscle and neural tissue lab manual questions

Question 1

What type of muscle is in the intestine?

Answer 1

Smooth muscle

Question 2

What type of muscle is in the tongue?

Answer 2

Skeletal muscle

Question 3

What type of muscle cells are multinucleated with the nuclei on the periphery of the cell?

Answer 3

Skeletal muscle

Question 4

What type of muscle cells lack striations

Answer 4

Smooth muscle

Question 5

What allows for the impulse to be transmitted rapidly through cardiac muscle?

Answer 5

Anastomoses between adjacent cardiac muscle cells

Question 6

What is the cyton?

Answer 6

The cell body of a neuron

Question 7

Is the sensory nerve afferent or efferent?

Answer 7

afferent

Question 8

Is the ventral nerve motor or sensory?

Answer 8

motor

Question 9

Is the dorsal nerve afferent or efferent?

Answer 9

Afferent

Question 10

What is the connective tissue that supports and nourishes neurons

Answer 10

neuroglia

Question 11

What is the purpose of the myelin sheath

Answer 11

to speed up the transmission of the impulse along the neuron

Question 12

Which part of the neuron receives the stimulus?

Answer 12

The dendrites

Question 13

Is the dorsal horn composed of grey or white matter?

Answer 13

Grey matter