NEETBiologyLocomotion and MovementMCQ+4 / −1
Calcium is important in skeletal muscle
contraction because it
- Adetaches the myosin head from the actin filament
- Bbinds to troponin to remove the masking of active sites on actin for myosin
- Cprevents the formation of bonds between the myosin cross bridges and the actin filament.
- Dactivates the myosin ATPase by binding to it
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Correct answer: B
The sarcoplasmic reticulum to release calcium ions into the muscle interior where they bind to troponin, thus causing tropomyosin to shift from the face of the actin filament to which myosin heads need to bind to produce contraction.
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