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Ch. 10 Muscle Tissue and Physiology

Chapter 10, Problem 10.2a

How does a skeletal muscle fiber differ structurally from typical cells?

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Hey, everyone. Let's take a look at this question. Together. The following are a unique characteristic or characteristics of a muscle cell. Is it answer choice? A contractility, answer choice B, excitability, answer choice, C extensibility. Answer choice D elasticity. Answer choice, E both answer choices C and D or answer choice F all of the above. Let's work this problem out together to try to figure out which of the following answer choices contains a unique characteristic or multiple characteristics of a muscle cell. So in order to solve this question, we have to recall what we have learned about the muscle cells and those unique characteristics of the muscle cell to determine which of the following answer choices is the correct answer. And we can recall that all muscle tissues have four common characteristics which includes excitability, contractility, extensibility, and elasticity. So looking at our answer choices, we see contractility, excitability, extensibility and lastly elasticity. So all answer choices are correct making answer choice F all of the above the most appropriate answer choice. So answer choice F is the correct answer. Since answer choices, ABC and D all include the unique characteristics of a muscle cell. I hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and goodbye.
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Mark the following statements as true for smooth muscle tissue, cardiac muscle tissue, and/or skeletal muscle tissue.          


a. ____Actin attaches to dense bodies.          ​​​​

b. ____Cells are joined by intercalated discs.          ​​​​

c. ____The thick and thin filaments are arranged into sarcomeres.          ​​​​

d. ____The thick filaments contain myosin heads along their entire length.          ​​​​

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