Anatomy of a skeletal muscle
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What is the organ of a skeletal muscle?
A muscle
A muscle is made of many _____.
Fascicles
What is a fascicle?
A bundle of muscle fibers
What is a muscle fiber?
A muscle cell made of many myofibrils
What is a myofibril?
Long proteins that make up each muscle fiber
What does myofilaments make up?
Sarcomeres
What are myofilaments made of?
Actin and Myosin
What does a tendon do?
Connects skeletal muscle to bone
What is an epimysium?
Connective tissue sheath that surrounds the entire muscle
What is the perimysium?
Connective tissue sheath that surrounds each fascicle
What is an endomysium?
Connective tissue sheath that surrounds each muscle fiber
What is a sarcolemma?
Plasma membrane around each muscle fiber
Sarcomere line up to form ____.
Myofibrils
What is a sarcomere?
The smallest unit where contraction occurs
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