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Q.Explain different type of muscles.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Muscle tissue in the human body is of three types — skeletal (striated, voluntary), smooth (unstriated, involuntary), and cardiac (striated, involuntary) — each suited to a different function.
1. Skeletal (striated) muscle:
- Attached to bones (via tendons) and responsible for voluntary movements of the body (e.g. limb movement, chewing).
- Fibres are long, cylindrical, unbranched, and multinucleate (many nuclei per fibre, located peripherally).
- Shows alternating light and dark bands (striations) under the microscope, due to the regular arrangement of actin and myosin filaments.
- Contraction is under conscious (voluntary) control and is generally rapid but tires (fatigues) quickly.
2. Smooth (non-striated/visceral) muscle:
- Found in the walls of internal (visceral) organs — e.g. the alimentary canal, blood vessels, urinary bladder, uterus, iris of the eye.
- Fibres are spindle-shaped (tapering at both ends), unbranched, and uninucleate (single, centrally placed nucleus).
- Lacks visible striations, as the contractile filaments are not as regularly arranged as in skeletal muscle.
- Contraction is involuntary (not under conscious control) and typically slow, sustained, and resistant to fatigue — suited to functions like peristalsis.
3. Cardiac muscle:
- Found only in the wall of the heart (myocardium). …
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