Exercise 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology

EXERCISE 2: Skeletal Muscle Physiology

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Student instructions: Follow the step-by-step instructions for this exercise found in your lab manual and record your answers in the spaces below. Submit this completed document by the assignment due date found in the Syllabus.
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Grading: True/False, Multiple-Choice, and Fill-in-the-blank type questions will be worth 1 point each whereas Short-answer type questions will be worth 2 points each. This lab will be worth a total of 76 points but will be converted to a percentage grade when registered in your “Gradebook”.

|ACTIVITY 1: The Muscle Twitch and the Latent Period |Answers |
|The latent period of the skeletal muscle that was tested in this lab simulation was |c. between 2-3 msec. |
|about 1 second. | |
|less than 1 msec. | |
|between 2-3 msec. | |
|variable, depending on the voltage that was applied to it. | |
|True or False: Another name for a muscle cell is “myofibril.” |False: Another name for a muscle cell is “Myoblast”