muscle tissue

Question 1

what are the major types of muscle tissue

Answer 1

smooth, skeletal and cardiac

Question 2

what are the properties of smooth muscle

Answer 2

also called involuntary(no conscious control), no visible striation(smooth)
individual fibres are elongated, spindle-shaped

Question 3

what are the properties of skeletal muscle

Answer 3

also called voluntary or striated muscle
giant, multinucleated, cylindrical cells
each fibre has many elongated nuclei at periphery(outer part) of cell

Question 4

what is the cell membrane called in muscle cells

Answer 4

sarcolemma

Question 5

what are the properties of cardiac muscle

Answer 5

forms major parts of walls of heart chembers and origins of great vessels
have striations(less prominent), much shorter fibres which branch to form network
single nucleus near centre, cells seen as intercalated discs