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There are three types of proteins in the muscle; contractile, regulatory, and structural.
Contractile: Myosin and actin.
Regulatory: tropomyosin and torponin.
Structural: Titin, alpha-actin, Myomesin, Nebulin, and Dystrophin.
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The only tissue that is able to contract and shorten in the body?
muscles
What does the contraction of the diaphragm cause?
It allows you to breath or more precisely exhale. When the muscle is relaxed your lungs expand and you inhale.
What Major function is to contract?
muscle tissue
Which tissue allow the body to move by stretching and contracting?
The type of tissue that allows or produces movement is muscle tissue.
What tells muscles when to contract?
A Nerve cell tells a muscle when to contract.
What is muscle protein?
it is tiny muscle fibers that contract and expand the muscle
What tissue can contract and be stretched but not expand?
muscle
What cells expand and contract to move the body.?
Muscle cells
What is the part of the muscle fiber that allows the fiber to contract?
The sacromere with the proteins actin and myosin allow the muscle cell (fiber) to contract.
Why would a person may shiver?
Muscle contract and expand involuntarily to produce heat
Any tissue made of cells or fibers that contract and expand to cause movement is an?
Muscle.
The only tissue that is able to contract and shorten in the body?
muscles
What is located on the posterior side of the trachea and allows the esophagus to expand anteriorly during swallowing?
trachealis muscle
What does muscle tissue allow us to do?
Muscle tissues allow the human body to move its limbs and to move parts of the organs. Muscle tissues contract or expand in order to provide the required motion.
How do you inhale and exhaile?
When you inhale your rib muscle and diaphram contract and expand the chest cavitie. When you exhale you rib muscle and diaphram relax, reducing the size of the chest cavitie.
The shape and size of cell vary according to the function it has to perform justify the statement taking muscle cell as example?
muscle cells are long so they can expand and contract.
Skeletal muscle with light and dark stripes?
The stripes in skeletal muscle are formed by two different sorts of protein that slide over each other making the cell contract.
