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Muscles

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Estimated time: 3 minutes
CBSE: Class 12

Key Points: Muscles

  • Muscles are specialised tissues of mesodermal origin and contribute to 40–50% of an adult human's body weight.
  • Muscles have four properties - Excitability, Contractility, Extensibility, and Elasticity.
  • Skeletal muscles — associated with the skeletal system; striated (light & dark bands); voluntary; responsible for locomotion and body posture changes.
  • Visceral muscles — form the inner walls of internal organs; non-striated; involuntary; assist in the movement of food through the digestive tract and gametes.
  • Cardiac muscles - found only in the heart; striated with a branching pattern; involuntary in action.
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