1. Muscular Tissue
By: Kristin Tuccillo

2. What are the main functions of muscular tissue?
Movement
Maintenance of posture
Joint stabilization
Heat generation

3. What are the four functional features of muscle tissue?
Contractility
Excitability
Extensibility
Elasticity

4. What are the three types of muscle tissue?
Skeletal Muscle Tissue
Cardiac Muscle Tissue
Smooth Muscle Tissue

5. What muscle tissue is this?
Skeletal Muscle

6. What are 6 features of this tissue?
Long, cylindrical cells
Multinucleated
Obvious striations
Muscle fiber
A band (myosin)
I band (actin)

7. What are its four main functions?
Voluntary movement
Locomotion
Expression
Voluntary control

8. Where is this tissue located?
Muscles attached
to bone
Occasionally muscle attached
to skin

9. What muscle tissue is this?
Cardiac Muscle

10. What are 6 features of this tissue?
Branching
Striated
Intercalated disks
Nucleus
A band (myosin)
I band (actin)

11. What is its main function?
Involuntarily propels blood to and from heart

12. Where is this tissue located?
Within the walls of the heart

13. What muscle tissue is this?
Smooth Muscle

14. What are 2 main features of this tissue?
Spindle shape cells
Central nuclei

15. What is its main function?
Involuntary peristaltic movement

16. Where is this tissue located?
Walls of hollow organs
Walls of blood vessels