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Which muscle characteristic describes the ability of muscle to respond to a stimulus?
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Excitability
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What is the ability to respond a stimulus?
To React
The ability to respond to similar but distinct stimuli?
Stimulus Discrimination?
What is the ability to respond to stimulus called?
Irritability
Which muscle trait is the ability to respond to a stimulus such as a nerve or hormone?
Excitibilty
Which of these occurs when an organism responds to external or internal stimuli?
Anything in an organism's external environment that causes the organism to react is a stimulus. a reaciton to a stimulus is a response. The ability to respond to stimuli in the environment is an important characteristic of living things
What is the ability of a muscle to respond to nerve stimulus called?
neuromuscular efficiency neuromuscular efficiency
The most distinguishing characteristic of muscle tissue is?
Excitability = the ability to receive and respond to a stimulus Contractility = the ability to shorten Extensibility = the ability to be stretched Elasticity = the ability to resume normal length after contraction or having been stretched.
What characteristic is an organism ability to respond to stimuli most closely associated with?
homeostasis
What do you call the tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar but not identical to a conditioned stimulus?
Generalization is the tendency to respond to a stimulus that is similar but not identical to a conditioned stimulus.
What is the difference between membrane irritability and membrane conductivity?
Irritability is the ability to respond to a stimulus and convert it into a nerve impulse while conductivity is the ability to transport the impulse.
Do viruses respond to a stimulus?
A stimulus causes your body to react, a response is something that is caused by a stimulus. Work it out, does the virus respond to you more or you to the virus?
A muscle fiber will not respond to a stimulus until that stimulus reaches what?
it will not respond until it reaches the threshold level
