Essay On Skeletal Muscle

Introduction In organisms, there are three types of muscle. Smooth muscle helps make up the internal workings of our systems, while cardiac muscle builds our heart, supplying us with oxygen through the blood. The third type of muscle, skeletal, is important for locomotion. It attaches bones to bones, joints to joints, and allows movement. Skeletal muscles differ from one part of the body to another. This is due to the fact that we need to use our bodies for different things. While we may need to move our legs at great length, our fingers might not be able to take the same charge. (National Cancer Institute)

Because the skeletal muscle creates movement, it’s going to be needing a lot of oxygen in order to complete its tasks. Skeletal muscle is abundant with arteries and veins, supplying the tissue with all the oxygen it needs to complete its job. As the blood flows through the muscle, one end is attached, via the tendon, to the bone,

Between points six and seven, the lines jump drastically. This was due to the fact that the muscle showed great strength. As we were increasing the length, the muscle decided to fight back as we kept applying a current to it. It wanted to flex but didn’t have as much room to flex. So, it did the only thing it could do to achieve that amount of flex: pull on the ropes that held it into place and pass the strain onto them. While these points drastically changed part of our results, the theme of the other points proved to be correct. The muscle will not twitch farther than it can, because if it did, the muscle would break free from the binds that would have held it attached to the bone, aka the tendon. This would render the muscles useless, causing great harm to creatures if muscles twitch too far. So, in a way, while some of our data points showed up incorrectly, they showed us what could happen if the muscle tries to flex too