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**Step-by-Step Text Solution:** 1. **Identify the Three Types of Muscles:** - The three types of muscles found in the human body are: - Cardiac Muscle - Skeletal Muscle - Smooth Muscle 2. **Describe Cardiac Muscle:** - Cardiac muscle is found exclusively in the heart. - It has a striated appearance, which means it shows light and dark bands. - Cardiac muscle is involuntary, meaning its contractions and relaxations cannot be consciously controlled. 3. **Describe Skeletal Muscle:** - Skeletal muscles are attached to the skeleton (bones and joints). - Like cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle is also striated, showing light and dark bands. - Skeletal muscle is voluntary, meaning its contractions and relaxations can be consciously controlled. 4. **Describe Smooth Muscle:** - Smooth muscle does not have a striated appearance; it appears smooth. - It is primarily found in the walls of visceral organs (like the intestines and blood vessels). - Smooth muscle is involuntary, meaning its contractions and relaxations are not under conscious control.
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  2. Muscles have special properties like ,, and

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  3. Three types of mucles are

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  4. muscles are closely associated with the skeletal components of the bod...

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  5. Skeletal muscles have a striped appearance under the microscope and he...

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  6. Name the muscles which are closely related with the locomotory actions...

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  7. (A) muscles are located in the inner walls of hollow visceral organs o...

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  8. Smooth muscles are also called involuntary muscles. Why?

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  9. Name the muscles which assit in the transportation of food through the...

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  10. Based on appeareance cardiac mucles are

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  11. Each organised skeletal muscle in our body is made of a number of hel...

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  12. What is sarcolemma?

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  13. Store house of Ca^(+2) in muscle fibre is

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  14. A characteristic feature of a muscle fibre is the presence of large nu...

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  15. Light bands of muscle fiber consist of filaments calledwhereas dark ba...

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  16. Fill in the blanks with the suitable wordsfilaments are thinner as com...

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  17. In the center of I-Band, is an elastic fiber, which bisect it

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  18. The thick filaments in'the A-band of a myofibril are held together in ...

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