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What are antagonistic muscles? Give one example.

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Antagonistic muscles are those muscles which produce movements in an antagonistic pair of muscles by opposing the movement of the agonistic muscle .i.e. when one contacts the other relaxes and vice versa. Example- biceps and triceps, quadriceps and hamstrings.

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