muscle structure

Question 1

fascicle

Answer 1

• a bundle of skeletal muscle cells
• they group together to form skeletal muscles

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Question 2

muscle fiber

Answer 2

• an individual muscle cell within each skeletal muscle
• compose fascicles

#7 & what surrounds #7 on image

Question 3

myofibril

Answer 3

• the muscle fiber is made up of protein filaments called ____
• ____ are composed of sarcomeres
• the organelle

Question 4

epimysium

Answer 4

• encircles entire muscle
• ct layer

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Question 5

perimysium

Answer 5

fibrous connective tissue that surrounds groups of 10-100 individual muscle fibers called fascicles

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Question 6

endomysium

Answer 6

connective tissue surrounding an individual muscle fiber

#7 on image

Question 7

fascia

Answer 7

loose connective tissue wraps around groups of muscle

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Question 8

myosin

Answer 8

the contractile protein that makes up the thick filaments of muscle fibers

Question 9

actin

Answer 9

a contractile protein that is part of the thin filaments in muscle fibers

Question 10

sarcomere

Answer 10

the functional unit of muscle that produces muscular contraction & consists of repeating sections of actin & myosin

Question 11

tendon

Answer 11

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Question 12

filament

Answer 12

inside myofibril