Nervous/Muscle System
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What is the main function of muscle tissue?
Muscle tissue's main function is to contract and shorten to produce movement.
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What are the three types of muscle tissue?
The three types of muscle tissue are:
- Skeletal
- Cardiac
- Smooth
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Describe skeletal muscle tissue.
Skeletal muscle:
- Is controlled voluntarily.
- Pulls on bones or skin to move the body.
- Cells are long, cylindrical, multinucleate, and striated (striped).
- Cells are called muscle fibers.
- Is packaged into organs called skeletal muscles.
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Describe cardiac muscle tissue.
Cardiac muscle:
- Is involuntarily controlled.
- Is found only in the heart.
- Cells are striated, have only one nucleus, are shorter and branched.
- Cells are connected via gap junctions at intercalated disks.
- Gap junctions allow for rapid communication of electrical impulses.
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