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When a body dies, stored calcium leaks and calcium pumps don't function anymore, so the extra calcium causes actin and myosin filaments of muscle fibers to become link, which causes the body to stiffen.
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What happens biologically when you get a muscle cramp?
it is from a lack of water in your body Edited: Because lack of ATP.
What is the name of substance that is the chemical bi-product of turning glucose into ATP and what does it do to your muscles?
Lactic acid. It lets your muscles function with a lack of oxygen (anaerobic respiration instead of aerobic respiration).
During a race how do your muscles produce ATP after the store of ATP in muscles is used?
muscle cells produce ATP by cellular respiration through fermentation
How many muscles does ATP have?
The acronym ATP stands for adenosine triphosphate, which is a chemical; chemicals do not have muscles, the just have atoms.
What is the byproduct of ATP and is it bad for muscles?
The byproduct of ATP when it makes muscles work is ADP and energy. They are not harmful in anyway.
When a person dies rigor mortis sets in as atp synthesis ceases why does the lack of atp in muscle cells cause the muscles to become rigid?
The answer is that muscles use ATP to relax, allowing the next part of the contraction process to occur. After death, a lack of energy causes a failure of muscle relaxation on a microsopic level and so a stiffness. Rigor Mortis is caused by lack of ATP which causes tight binding of myosin 2 heads to actin. This doesn't last long, however, as the muscles quickly decompose and become soft again.
Where do cardiac muscles produce ATP?
Cellular respiration
What does ATP send to muscles?
tell's them what to do
ATP is used by the body as?
ATP is used by the body as a source of energy for the muscles.
When does energy when you eat food?
When you eat food, chemical energy is converted to mechanical energy. This happens when ATP is supplied to the muscles, enabling movement.
How is lack of oxygen related to lack of energy?
We use oxygen to burn sugar to make ATP energy. ATP is cellular money and without it many processes cannot occur. Depletion in ATP energy can be felt by lack of energy.
What molecules do muscles get most of their energy from?
ATP. And they got ATP from e.g. phosphoenolpyruvate, from glucose.
