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Lesson: Chapter 1 — Living Tissues

Putting the chapter together 3 of 3

Question 3

Which pair gives two structural differences between human cardiac muscle fibres and skeletal muscle fibres?

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Cardiac fibres are branched and uninucleate; skeletal fibres are unbranched and multinucleate. Both are striated, so striations are not a difference between these two.

A third structural difference is the intercalated discs between cardiac cells, which skeletal muscle has not. Note that tiring and voluntary control are differences in behaviour, not structure — the question asks for structural ones.

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