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Question
Give three features of cardiac muscles.
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Solution
Three features of cardiac muscles are:
- Cardiac muscles are involuntary muscles that contract rapidly but do not get fatigued.
- The cells of cardiac muscles are cylindrical, branched, and uninucleate.
- They control the contraction and relaxation of the heart.
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