Deck 9: Muscle Tissue

Question 1

A muscle cell membrane is call the ________.

A) perimysium
B) epimysium
C) endomysium
D) sarcolemma

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Muscle tissue has all of the following properties EXCEPT ________.

A) extensibility
B) excitability
C) secretion
D) contractility

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What are the specialized gap junctions found in cardiac muscle that conduct contraction stimuli from one cardiocyte to the next?

A) striations
B) desmosomes
C) tight junctions
D) intercalated discs

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Compared to skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle ________.

A) cells are larger than skeletal muscle cells
B) has intercalated discs
C) has more nuclei per cell
D) lacks striations

Question 5

All of the following are characteristics of skeletal muscle EXCEPT ________.

A) striated
B) voluntary
C) the cells are long
D) uninucleated

Question 6

What are the embryonic cells that differentiate into muscle fibers?

A) chondroblasts
B) osteoblasts
C) erythrocytes
D) myoblasts

Question 7

Which of the following statements is true?

A) Striated muscle cells are long and cylindrical with many nuclei.
B) Smooth muscle cells have many nuclei.
C) Cardiac muscle is found in the heart and large blood vessels.
D) Cardiac muscle cells have many nuclei.

Question 8

Which type of muscle tissue moves or stabilizes the position of the skeleton?

A) skeletal
B) smooth
C) cardiac
D) none of the above

Question 9

All of the following are true of smooth muscle EXCEPT ________.

A) involuntary
B) spindle shaped
C) multinucleated
D) nonstriated

Question 10

What type of muscle tissue functions to pump blood out of the heart?

A) smooth
B) single-unit skeletal muscle
C) skeletal muscle
D) cardiac muscle

Question 11

Which type of muscle tissue is found inside hollow organs, such as the stomach, intestines and blood vessels?

A) multi-unit skeletal
B) skeletal
C) cardiac
D) smooth