Muscles responsible for locomotion and change of body posture are:
1. Skeletal muscles
2. Smooth muscles
3. Cardiac muscles
4. Non-striated muscles
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Identify the incorrect statement about muscles.
1. Muscles exhibit excitability, contractility, extensibility and elasticity.
2. Muscle fibres are capable of shortening and returning to their original shape.
3. Smooth muscles are voluntary and striated.
4. Cardiac muscles are involuntary but striated
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Which of the following muscles are uninucleate and unbranched?
1. Skeletal muscles
2. Smooth muscles
3. Cardiac muscles
4. Both skeletal and cardiac muscles
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Muscle type found in the walls of visceral organs such as alimentary canal is:
1. Skeletal muscle
2. Smooth muscle
3. Cardiac muscle
4. Striated muscle
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Cardiac muscles differ from skeletal muscles because they:
1. Are multinucleate
2. Lack striations
3. Are involuntary and branched
4. Cannot contract rhythmically
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The term myofibrils refers to:
1. Thread-like contractile structures inside muscle fibres
2. Connective tissue sheath around muscles
3. Filaments of actin only
4. Plasma membrane of muscle fibre
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In skeletal muscle fibre, the cytoplasm is called:
1. Sarcolemma
2. Sarcoplasm
3. Sarcoplasmic reticulum
4. Sarcosome
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The alternating dark and light bands seen under a microscope in skeletal muscles are due to:
1. Arrangement of actin and myosin filaments
2. Distribution of nuclei
3. Variation in sarcoplasm
4. Uneven sarcolemma
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The dark band (A band) is made of:
1. Actin only
2. Myosin only
3. Both actin and myosin overlapping
4. Titin filaments only
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The light band (I band) contains:
1. Only actin filaments
2. Only myosin filaments
3. Both actin and myosin filaments
4. Actin and tropomyosin only
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