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