The Musculoskeletal System

Recall cards on the animal musculoskeletal system: the three skeletal designs (hydrostatic skeleton, exoskeleton, endoskeleton) and the 206-bone human axial and appendicular skeleton (skull, vertebral column, thoracic cage, girdles, and limbs); bone as a tissue (bone shapes, compact and spongy bone, osteons, the four bone cell types, ossification, growth, remodeling, and fracture repair); the structural and functional classification of joints (fibrous, cartilaginous, and the six synovial joint types) and the body movements they allow; and muscle contraction (the three muscle tissue types, sarcomere and myofilament structure, the sliding filament model, the cross-bridge and ATP cycle, excitation-contraction coupling at the neuromuscular junction, and how muscle tension and whole-muscle force are set).