types of tissue / muscle

Cards (8)

  • what are the 3 types of muscle cells?
    Skeletal, cardiac, smooth.
  • where is the skeletal muscle found
    in the bones
  • where is the cardiac muscle found 

    in the heart
  • where is the smooth muscle found
    in the walls of blood vessels
  • what are myofibrils?
    bundles of protein filiments that produce muscle contraction and reflaxation
  • why would having individual muscle cells joined end to end not be ideal?

    less smooth movements
  • what is a sarcoplasm?
    long stands of muscle cells sharing a cytoplasm and nucleus
  • what are the names of the thick and thin protein filaments?
    actin (thin) myosin ( thick )