I. Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. 1. A ______________ or articulation is a place where two bones come together.

2. Most of the mineral in the bone is in the form of calcium phosphate called ______________. 3. When bone growth stops, the cartilage of each epiphyseal plate is replaced by bone and is called an ______________ line. 4. Red marrow consists of blood-forming cells while yellow marrow consists mostly of ______________. 5. The periosteum and endosteum contain ______________ or bone-forming cells. 6. ______________ ossification is bone formation that occurs inside the cartilage. 7. Bone growth that occurs by the deposition of new bone lamellae onto existing bone is called ______________ growth. 8. Bone ______________ involves the removal of existing bone by osteoclasts and the deposition of new bone by osteoblasts. 9. ______________ is secreted by the thyroid gland that decreases osteoclast activity and decreases blood calcium. 10. A hole in the bone is called ______________. 11. The ______________ bone is an unpaired, U-shaped bone that has no direct attachment to the skull. 12. The second cervical vertebra is called ______________ and is responsible for the no motion. 13. The vertebral bodies are separated by the ______________ disks. 14. ______________ is located on the distal end of the humerus. 15. The ______________ is the place where the lower limbs attach to the body. 16. The pelvic inlet is heart-shaped in a male while in a woman it is ______________ shaped. 17. The ______________ is the region between the hip and the knee. 18. A freely movable joint is called ______________. 19. Myofibril consists of two major kinds of protein fibers: _____________ and myosin myofilaments. 20. A light _________ band consists only of actin myofilaments. 21. The rapid depolarization and repolarization of the cell membrane is called an ______________. 22. Each synaptic vesicles contain ______________ which functions as a neurotransmitter. 23. The sliding of actin myofilaments past myosin myofilaments is called the sliding ______________. 24. ______________ is the contraction of a muscle fiber in response to a stimulus. 25. ______________ involves increasing the number of muscle fibers contracting. 26. Anaerobic respiration does not require ______________ in the breakdown of glucose to yield ATP and lactic acid. 27. Muscle ______________ results when ATP is used during muscle contraction faster than it can be produced in the muscle fibers. 28. ______________ contraction is where the amount of tension produced by the muscle is constant but the length of the muscle decreases.

29. The part of the muscle between the origin and the insertion is the ______________. 30. A muscle acting in opposition to an agonist is called an ______________.