Which fascicle arrangement is most well suited to a muscle that needs to generate a lot of force over a small distance?

Here we wanna know which fascicle arrangement is most well suited to a muscle that needs to generate a lot of force over a small distance. And the answer to this, remember, we have that sort of rough relationship, that you could have fibers that are very long, and that will give you a large amount of contraction. But here, it says that that it's gonna contract over a small distance. So we're not worried about having really long muscle fibers or long fascicles. The other rough relationship that we had was the more fibers you could fit into a muscle, the stronger the muscle contract. And so that looks like that's what we're dealing with here. We want to generate a lot of force over a small distance. And we said that there were some fascicle arrangements that tried to optimize that, that was those pennate fascicle arrangements. Remember the pennate fascicle arrangements, these fascicles are coming off at an angle of a off a tendon that runs down through the muscle. So regardless, I have two options here that say pennant. So I'm pretty sure therefore that my circular muscle or fascicle arrangement isn't correct. Remember, circular just makes it so that it goes in a circle so you can create a sphincter, so it can close down on an opening. And then fusiform. Fusiform, remember that's a parallel fascicle arrangement, so it's not gonna be that. Fusiform does get fatter in the middle, so it can generate a little bit more force than just a perfectly parallel, fascicle arrangement, but still I think my answer is gonna be one of these pennant options. So then we have unipennate and multipenant. And so let's remember the difference between these. Unipennant means that there's a tendon that runs along one side of the muscle and those fascicles go off at an angle off of one side being very short to fit more of those muscle fibers into the mouth muscle. Multi pennant said that the that the tendon branches, and then off of each of those branches you are you have these short fascicles running off at an angle. So when I look at that it sounds to me like the multi pennant is the one that's really trying to generate the most amount of force. It's trying to pack in the most amount of fibers you can. So I feel comfortable giving the green check mark to multi pennant. I'm gonna cross out uni pennant. It's not the worst answer but multi pennant is better. So therefore, I feel very good saying that a multi pennant fascicle arrangement generates a lot of force over a small distance. There it is.

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Which fascicle arrangement is most well suited to a muscle that needs to generate a lot of force over a small distance?

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