Motor Systems Review Questions

  1. For each group of animals below, name the material that the skeleton is composed of:
  2. Arthropods
    vertebrates
    mollusks

  3. For your answer to arthropods (above), tell what class of biological molecules the material is (carbohydrate, lipid, protein, or nucleic acid).

  4. Name the kind of skeleton (exoskeleton, endoskeleton, or hydrostatic skeleton) found in each of the following kinds of animals
  5. an arthropod
    a vertebrate
    mollusks such as snails (gastropods) or clams (bivalves)
    mollusks such as squid, octopuses, and nautiluses (cephalopods)

  6. Which of the following have a skeleton that is jointed and moveable?
  7. arthropods
    vertebrates
    mollusks

  8. Which of the following shed their skeletons?
  9. arthropods
    vertebrates
    mollusks

  10. Be able to define exoskeleton, endoskeleton, and hydrostatic skeleton.

  11. State the function of a clam shell.

  12. Describe the structure of bone. Your answer should mention the following: haversian canals, osteocytes, blood vessels, spongy bone, compact bone.

  13. What is an osteoblast?

  14. Describe how long bones are formed in the embryo. What happens to the cartilaginous disk that separates the primary and secondary ossification centers?

  15. Name the major bones of the axial skeleton.

  16. Name the major bones of the pectoral girdle.

  17. Name the major bones of the pelvic girdle.

  18. Name the largest bone in the body.

  19. What are the bones in the wrist called?

  20. What are the bones in the hand called?

  21. Muscle contracts as a result of filaments sliding past each other. Be able to draw these filaments and name the protein that they are made of.

  22. Be able to explain how muscle contracts. Your explanation should mention depolarization, T-tubules, ATP, calcium, calcium storage sacs (sarcoplasmic reticulum), myosin, actin, and myosin binding sites, troponin, tropomyosin.

  23. What is a motor unit?

  24. Neurotransmitters initiate muscle contraction by depolarizing the cell. What channels (gates) are opened or closed to produce the depolarization?

  25. What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?

 
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