9. Muscle Tissue

What type of muscle tissue is shown in the slide below?

Which type of muscle cell is typically the largest?

Use the key to classify each of the following described tissue types into one of the four major tissue categories.

Key:

a. Connective tissue

b. Epithelium

c. Muscle

d. Nervous tissue 

_________    (1) Tissue type composed largely of nonliving extracellular matrix; important in protection and support 

_________    (2) The tissue immediately responsible for body movement 

_________    (3) The tissue that enables us to be aware of the external environment and to react to it 

_________    (4) The tissue that lines body cavities and covers surfaces

Differentiate between the roles of neurons and the supporting cells of nervous tissue.

Name and describe the four special functional abilities of muscle that are the basis for muscle response.

Mrs. Delancy went to the local meat market and bought a beef tenderloin (cut from the loin, the region along the steer's caudal vertebral column) and some tripe (cow's stomach). What type of muscle was she preparing to eat in each case?

Compare and contrast skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle tissue relative to structure, body location, and specific function.

Which type of muscle fascicle pattern has an appearance similar to a feather?

a. Fusiform

b. Triangular

c. Pennate

d. Parallel

Mark the following statements as true or false. If a statement is false, correct it to make a true statement.

The plasma membrane of a muscle cell is called the sarcoplasmic reticulum.