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How does contraction of muscle fibres occur?

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The contraction occurs due to the sliding of thin actin filament over the thick over the myofibrils
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Assertion: Mechanism of muscle contraction is expalained by sliding-filaments theory. Reason: Contraction of muscle fibre takes place by the sliding of thick filaments over the thin filaments.