EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Tendons-these are made of strong fibrous connective tissue and they connect muscles to bone. They appear as the long thin ends of the muscles. The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body-it joins the calf muscle to the heel bone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Skeletal muscle is attached by cord-like tendons to bone, such as in the legs, arms, and face. Skeletal muscles are called striated (pronounced: STRY-ay-ted) because they are made up of fibers that have horizontal stripes when viewed under a microscope.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tendons: Tendons connect muscles to bones. Made of fibrous tissue and collagen, tendons are tough but not very stretchy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cardiac muscles This muscle is not part of the musculoskeletal system. Cardiac muscles are striated muscles, which are responsible for keeping our heart functioning by pumping and circulating blood throughout the body and performing muscular involuntary movements.

Detailed explanation-5: -The hands and feet contain over half of the body’s bones. Coming out on top are your hands and feet. Each hand has 27 bones, and each foot has 26, which means that together the body’s two hands and two feet have 106 bones. That is, the hands and feet contain more than half of the bones in your entire body.