Exam 31: Skeletons, Muscles, and Movement

Which of the following is a likely explanation as to why terrestrial animals do not have a skeleton built entirely of cartilage?

If there were no tendons in your appendicular skeleton, you would not be able to

Which of the following is not one of the three different types of support structures that make up the human skeleton?

Which of the following would not be found in an insect?

A hydrostat stiffens when a muscle contracts around a body cavity filled with a ____________________.

A myofibril

One benefit of smooth muscle being prominent in the digestive tract is that

Cardiac muscle

You can wave "hello" to a friend, because you have

Locomotion in insects differs from that of vertebrates in that the muscles of insects

The energy source for muscle contraction comes from

The ____________________ the surface area exposed to a medium, the smaller the amount of drag experienced.

Short-distance sprinters probably have more slow muscle fibers than fast muscle fibers in their legs.

Generally, the larger an animal, the less of its weight is made up by its skeleton.

By analyzing the chart below, the following conclusion can be drawn:

Bone-to-bone connections in the human knee are cushioned by

The polysaccharide that forms the basis of support tissues in insects and lobsters is

In human embryos, the skeleton starts out as cartilage and is later replaced by bone.

If the sarcomeres of a muscle are in the arrangement depicted by the figure below, the muscle must be in a relaxed state.

Ligaments are connective tissues that connect ____________________ to bone.