NUTRITION
THE HUMAN BODY
Question
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The three types of muscle are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Skeletal muscle – the specialised tissue that is attached to bones and allows movement. Smooth muscle – located in various internal structures including the digestive tract, uterus and blood vessels such as arteries. Cardiac muscle – the muscle specific to the heart.
Detailed explanation-2: -Contractions of cardiac muscle are involuntary, like those of smooth muscle.
Detailed explanation-3: -Human skeletal muscle is composed of a heterogenous collection of muscle fiber types. This range of muscle fiber types allows for the wide variety of capabilities that human muscles display. The three types of muscle fibres are slow oxidative (SO), fast oxidative (FO) and fast glycolytic (FG).
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