Biology A-Level
Structure of skeletal muscle tissue
What Structure of skeletal muscle tissue means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Structure of skeletal muscle tissue
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Long, parallel, unbranched cylindrical cells lying side by side in bundles, each multinucleate with flattened nuclei pushed to the periphery just under the sarcolemma.
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