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Q.Pacemaker is

(a) AV-node
(b) SA-node
(c) Bundle of His
(d) Purkinje fibres
Nagaland NbseNagaland Board of School Education (Class XI) 2025MCQ· 1mImportance★★★★★
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The SA node is the heart's natural pacemaker because it generates the highest rate of spontaneous electrical impulses, setting the rhythm for the whole heart.

The mammalian heart possesses a specialised, unique conduction/nodal tissue that can generate action potentials spontaneously without any external (neural) stimulus. This system includes the sino-atrial node (SA node), the atrioventricular node (AV node), the bundle of His, and Purkinje fibres.

  • The SA node, located in the right atrial wall, is capable of generating the maximum number of action potentials per minute, i.e. the fastest spontaneous rhythm, and so it sets the pace for the whole heart, hence it is called the pacemaker. …

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