A sarcomere consists of thin and thick filaments arranged so they can slide over each other. The boundary of the sarcomere are the Z lines. Thin filaments extend from the Z lines and overlap with thick filaments in the middle of the sarcomere. The I band is on each side of the Z line where only thin filaments occur. The A band is the length of the thick filaments and is divided into three parts; the zone of overlap is on each end where thin and thick filaments occur, the H band is in the middle and has only thick filaments, and the M line is the center of the A band.
A sarcomere is the area between two Z discs.
A sarcomere is best described asa unit within a myofibril. It is a basic unit of a muscle. It comes from the Greek word "sarx" which means flesh and "meros" which means part.
A sarcomere is the basic unit of a muscle (Greek sárx"flesh", méros "part").
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I-bands
During a contraction, the I bands and H zone of a sarcomere contract. The A bands remain unchanged.
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The sarcomere itself will become shorter.The sarcomere will shorten.
Sarcomere
sarcomere and sarcolemma are two different things. a sarcomere is between two d zisks of a myofiber (muscle fiber). a sarcolemma is a plasma membrane. there are many sections of sarcomere under the layer of sarcolemma.
The two main filaments composing the sarcomere are action and myocin.
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The three sections along the length of a sarcomere are the A band, the I band, and the H zone. The A band is the dark region in the center of the sarcomere that contains both thick and thin filaments, while the I band is the light region at the ends of the sarcomere that contains thin filaments only. The H zone is the region in the center of the sarcomere where only thick filaments are present.
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