MANY PROCESSES MUST TAKE place within the skeletal muscle fibres in order for muscle contraction to occur. The cross bridge cycle‚ process by which the muscle length is shortened as myosin heads‚ extending from the myosin filaments‚ interact cyclically in a rowing motion with the actin filament (Rayment et al. 1993)‚ is one of the crucial mechanical events required. The mechanism is initiated when an ATP molecule is bound to a myosin head. An enzyme within the head. known as ATPase‚ hydrolyzes the
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coarsely controlled muscles. Explain how motor units act to establish muscle tone. What are the functions of muscle tone? Motor Unit- One motor neuron and all the muscles it innervates. Each muscle will respond to one motor nerve which contains axons that can have up to 100’s of neurons that branch into terminals that form NMJ with ONE fiber. When a motor neuron sends an action potential‚ it will cause all of the connected muscle fibers to contract. The number of muscle fibers per motor unit
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Cellular Respiration and Fermentation Life is Work 9.1 Catabolic pathways yield energy by oxidizing organic fuels Intro Catabolic Pathways and Production of ATP 1. Distinguish fermentation and cellular respiration. Fermentation Partial degradation of glucose Uses no O2 Yields some ATP Cellular respiration Complete degradation to CO2 and H2O Requires O2 = aerobic Yields much more ATP 2. Describe the summary equation for cellular respiration. Also
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Comparison of Muscle Proteins to Infer Evolutionary Relationships of Mammals‚ Fish and Birds Abstract This experiment used electrophoresis to examine the makeup of muscle proteins from two mammals (cow‚ Bos taurus; bear‚ Ursus americanus)‚ two aves (chicken‚ Gallus gallus; turkey‚ Meleagris gallopavo)‚ and two fish (King Salmon‚ Oncorhynchus tshawytscha; Albacore Tuna‚ Scombridae unclassified). The hypothesis was that as species have diverged evolutionarily‚ the makeup of their muscle proteins
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Introduction Contractions of the uterus can occur throughout pregnancy. Contractions are not always a sign that you are in labor. Contractions that occur before labor are called Braxton Hicks contractions‚ or false labor. These contractions are sometimes confused with true labor. What are Braxton Hicks contractions? Braxton Hicks contractions are contractions of the uterus that occur before labor. Toward the end of pregnancy (32–34 weeks)‚ Braxton Hicks contractions can develop more often and may
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Cellular Respiration Cellular respiration is basically what cells do to break down sugars into a form that the cell can utilize as energy. Cellular respiration takes in food and uses it to create ATP. ATP is a chemical which the cell uses for energy. The are two forms of cellular respiration‚ aerobic and anaerobic respiration‚ in which will be explained. Regular cellular respiration is aerobic‚ meaning that it requires oxygen‚ but some simple organisms can only do anaerobic cellular respiration‚ which
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all the time‚ yet all living organisms perform one or both of two very important processes; cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is performed by plant organisms and some bacteria‚ and cellular respiration is performed by all living organisms. These two processes are reliant on each other. Photosynthesis creates oxygen‚ which is used in cellular respiration. Cellular respiration in turn creates carbon dioxide‚ which is an important “ingredient” in the process of photosynthesis.
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Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to use the muscle tension and the electrical activity in the dominant and non-dominant forearm muscle‚ the flexor digitorum superficialis‚ to analyze the determinants of muscle tension and fatigue‚ and the reasons as to why differences may occur between the dominant and non-dominant arm. The generation of tension in a muscle is determined by the major type of motor unit being recruited‚ as well as the rate in which action potentials are being fired. A subject
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Cyanobacteria’s big advantage over other early life forms was their ability to perform photosynthesis. They contain a blue photo reactive pigment that can absorb the energy from the sunlight and use it to produce nutrients for the cell. During this process‚ water molecules are broken down into oxygen and hydrogen atoms which are then released in the air. In the very early days of life‚ Earth was populated only by anaerobic bacteria that didn’t need oxygen to survive. When cyanobacteria first made
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voluntary muscle the different types of muscle fibre including slow twitch fast twitch‚including how their properties are influenced by their reliance on aerobic and anaerobic energy sources. Skeletal muscle is made up of bundles of individual muscle fibres called myocytes. Each myocyte contains many myofibrils‚ which are strands of proteins (actin and myosin) that can grab on to each other and pull. This shortens the muscle and causes muscle contraction. It is generally accepted that muscle fibre
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