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The skeletal muscle consists of muscle fibers that are cylindrical and run along the entire length of the skeletal muscle. The muscle fibers consist of many fibrils that give a striated appearance to the muscle. The muscle fibers are multinucleated and supply nutrients and oxygen to the muscles tissue.
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Which statement about striated skeletal muscle is true?
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The tension generated by a muscle is invariable.
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Mechanical summation of twitches in a muscle fiber leads to a graded increase in the tension that is above that generated by a single twitch.
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A single action potential arriving at the neuromuscular junction is not sufficient to cause a muscle fiber to twitch.
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Muscle twitches are able to mechanically sum when Ca2+ is quickly and completely removed from the sarcoplasm between action potentials.
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An action potential in the muscle cell activates contraction by releasing Na+ into the sarcoplasm.
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A. When muscles are relaxed tropomyosin blocks binding sites on actin subunits, which keeps cross-bridges from forming.
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C. During contraction, actin subunits are removed from the ends of the "thin" filaments to shorten actin polymers, thus reducing the length of the sarcomere.
D. "Thick" filaments are anchored at the M-line, while "thin" filaments are anchored at the Z-line.
E. Numerous myosin heads engage with the actin filaments simultaneously, such that there is no back-slipping during the contraction process.
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Biology: The Dynamic Science (MindTap Course List)
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