Tissue (Muscle Tissue)

Question 1

What are the three types of muscle tissue

Answer 1

Skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle

Skeletal muscles and cardiac muscles are striated (lined) smooth muscle is not

Question 2

What do skeletal muscles do

Answer 2

-attached to skeleton; contraction produces body movement
-stimulated by nervous system to contract; voluntary (conscious) control

-skeletel muscles are long

-forms by fusion of embryonic myoblasts; synthesis of enzymes, structural proteins, and contractile proteins

Question 3

What does cardiac muscle do

Answer 3

-located in heart
-striated
-one nucleus (uninucleate)
-involuntary
-intercalculated disc

Question 4

What does smooth muscle do

Answer 4

-has smooth muscle cells
-involuntary
-neighboring cells linked together by gap junctions
-flattened cell with one found ovoid nucleus