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Can muscle cells extend or get longer as well as contract or get shorter?
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When a muscle contracts it become shorter or longer?
It becomes shorter.
What muscle can do?
Muscles can contract and shorten
What is the homonym for contract?
The homonym for contract is "contract," which can also refer to a legal agreement or a muscle that becomes shorter and tighter.
When a muscle contracts how does actin and myosin get shorter?
When the muscle contracts, it gets shorter. When it relaxes, it gets longer.
Can muscle cells become shorter?
Yes, muscle cells can become shorter through a process called muscle contraction. This happens when the filaments within the muscle cells slide past each other, causing the muscle to contract and shorten.
What happens to the muscle when the arm is bent?
Which muscle? The biceps, at the front of the arm, get shorter, and the triceps, at the back, get longer.
Why you use your muscle to move not your bones?
Your bones are solid and fixed - they cannot move by themselves because they have no flexibility. Your muscles are used to move your bones because each muscle can contract or relax - get shorter or longer - and therefore cause the bones to move.
What Muscle extends in any movement?
None. Muscles only contracts. In order to extend, the muscle on the opposite movement has to contract. For example, the biceps help flex the elbow, but it does not extend the elbow; the triceps does that.
Are striated under skeletal muscle?
Because muscle cells can only contract, not extend, skeletal muscles most work in pairs. While one muscle contracts, the other muscle in the pair relaxes to its original length.
When you perform flexion on your arm the biceps muscle contracts What happens to the triceps muscle on the posterior of the arm as you do this action?
The Triceps extend (Stretch out) as the biceps contract.
Can muscle cells extend?
only contract, never extend. if it looks like it is extending, that's just another muscles contraction.
