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Card 16

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Explain the advantage of having the high glycogen content of fast muscle fibres

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Card 17

Front

Explain the advantages of lots of capillaries supplying slow muscle fibres

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Card 18

Front

Explain how a decrease in the availability of calcium ions could disrupt the contraction mechanism in muscles.

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Card 19

Front

How is the shape of the myosin molecule adapted to its role in muscle contraction?

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Card 20

Front

Describe the role of ATP and phosphocreatine in producing contraction of a muscle fibre.

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Card 21

Front

What evidence is there that muscle contraction is caused by actin and myosin filaments sliding past one another?

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Card 22

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Describe the two types of protein filaments.

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