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Myofibrils
The sarcomere is the unit of muscular contraction.
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What is the smallest contractile unit of the muscle fiber?
sarcomere
The smallest functional unit of the muscle fiber?
The smallest functional unit of a muscle fiber is the sarcomere. Sarcomeres are composed of actin and myosin filaments arranged in a repeating pattern, allowing for muscle contraction and relaxation to occur. They are responsible for the striated appearance of skeletal muscle under a microscope.
What repeating units make up a muscle fiber?
sacomeres are a single unit of a muscle fiber multiple sacomeres make up a myofibril
What is the specific relationship of the functional unit of contraction to the striated appearance of a skeletal muscle fiber?
The organization of contractile proteins into a regular end-to-end repeating pattern of sacromeres along the length of each cell accounts for the striated, or striped, appearance of skeletal muscle in longitudinal section.
What is the basic unit of muscle?
muscle fiber
What is the structural unit of a muscle fiber?
A sacromere
The movable part of a muscle is?
The sarcomere is the contractile unit of a muscle fiber.
What is the organizational unit of skeletal muscle cells known as?
sacromere
Basic unit of contraction in skeletal and cardiac muscle?
The Sarcomere
What is the fundamental functional muscle fiber's unit of contraction?
The smallest contractile unit of a muscle fiber is the sarcomere.It is composed of contractile myofilaments known as actin and myosin.
What is basic unit of a muscle?
sarcomeresSarcomereSarcomeresThe functional unit of a skeletal muscle is called a sarcomere. Hole's Anatomy 12th edition, pg 287 states: "Muscle fibers, and in a way muscles themselves, are basically collections of sarcomeres, discussed later in this chapter as the functional units of muscle contraction."sarcomere.
What are the tissues in skeletal muscle?
Skeletal muscle is made up of individual components known as muscle fibers. These fibers are formed from the fusion of developmental myoblasts (a type of embryonic progenitor cell that gives rise to a muscle cell). The myofibers (muscle fiber) are long, cylindrical, multinucleated cells composed of actin and myosinmyofibrils repeated as a sarcomere, the basic functional unit of the cell and responsible for skeletal muscle's striated appearance and forming the basic machinery necessary for muscle contraction. The term muscle refers to multiple bundles of muscle fibers held together by connective tissue. Wikipedia dude ...
