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Involuntary muscle |
Muscles that aren’t under your control. They’re responsible for essential activities like breathing and digesting food. |
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Voluntary muscle |
Muscles that are under your control. eg. Smiling, turning a page in a book |
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3 types of muscle tissue |
Skeletal muscle , smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle |
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Skeletal muscle |
Voluntary muscle, react and tire quickly striated Connected to skeleton by tendons |
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Smooth muscle |
found in innards Involuntary muscle, react and tire slowly |
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Cardiac muscle |
Involuntary muscle, do not tire Striated |
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How can muscle contract ? |
Single muscle cells contract and shorten the muscle. they can only contract. they work in pairs |
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how do the muscles know when to contract ? |
The order to contract comes from the nervous system |
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Tendon |
A strong connective tissue that attached muscle to bone |
