Biology A-Level
Comparison of muscle tissue types
What Comparison of muscle tissue types means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Distinguishing skeletal muscle from cardiac muscle, which is branched with centrally placed nuclei and intercalated discs, and from smooth muscle, which is spindle-shaped with a single central nucleus and no striations.
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