The picture explains the structure of muscle fibers in a sequence.
- On the left, picture of a muscle with bundles of muscle fiber. The text box reads ‘A muscle consists of bundles of muscle fibers’.
- Next is a picture of a muscle fiber. The text box reads ‘Each muscle fiber is a cell that contains many myofibrils’.
- Following the muscle fiber is a picture of muscle fiber showing the sarcomere, actin and myosin. The text box reads ‘Each myofibril contains actin and myosin filaments’. The structural unit ‘sarcomere’ is labeled.
- On the right, the structure of sarcomere is shown and various structural parts are labeled. The parts labeled are:
The text box reads ‘Two Z lines and the filaments between them make up a sarcomere’.