Muscle System Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. skeletal muscles that straighten a body part
  2. 10. point of contact between a motor neuron and a skeletal muscle cell
  3. 11. skeletal muscles that bend a body part
  4. 12. tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages
  5. 13. bands of connective tissue that join muscle to bone
  6. 14. another name for muscle cell
  7. 16. band that both actin and myosin are found upon
  8. 17. found in internal organs
  9. 18. the light and dark stripes in skeletal and cardiac muscles
  10. 19. the cytoplasm of striated muscle fibers
  11. 20. a protein that holds a reserve supply of oxygen in muscle cells
Down
  1. 1. a thin layer of connective tissue that surrounds each muscle fiber
  2. 2. muscles that are not under your conscious control
  3. 3. muscles found in the heart
  4. 4. elastic protein that keeps thick and thin filaments aligned
  5. 5. muscles that are under your conscious control
  6. 7. the contractile unit of the muscle
  7. 8. the ability of muscle cells to shorten and generate a pulling force
  8. 9. specialized plasma membrane of muscle cells
  9. 15. clear, odorless hygroscopic syrupy carboxylic