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What happens when thin filaments in a muscles fiber slide over the thick filament?
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Contraction or relaxation of muscle fibre, due to similar effect in sarcomere
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∙ 9y agoDuring a muscle contraction when thick and thin filaments slide past each other the muscle fibers perform metabolic activities such as contraction.
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Is viscose a staple or filament fiber?
Filament
When thick and thin filaments slide past each other does the fiber lengthen?
Muscles contract when sarcomeres shorten. The thin and thick filaments that compose sarcomeres do not shorten; instead, they slide past one another, causing the sarcomere to shorten while the filaments remain the same length.
The filaments are arranged along the muscle fiber in units called?
Actin filaments
How else can you spell fiber?
There is a synonym to "fiber" that is spelled "fibre" that means the exact same thing.Fiber: NounA thread or filament formed from a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile.A substance formed of such threads or filaments.
What are the names of protein filaments in a muscle fiber?
Actin Filaments
What is largest to smallest muscle fiber myofibril fascicle or filament?
The largest skeletal muscle connective tissues are fascicles, which are bundles of fibers, which are made of myofibrils, which consist of myofilaments.
What type of cytoskeleton fiber anchors organelles?
intermediate filaments
Is silk a staple of filament fiber?
Staple fibre
The only natural fiber that's a filament is?
silk
What is the definition of a fiber?
Fiber (or fibre in English) means a threadlike filament of tissue or textile substance.
What allows recoil of the muscle fiber when contraction ends?
Elastic filaments
What is the synonym for the word strands?
thread, filament, fiber, string
