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What are muscular tissues?


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Animal Tissue:

  1. Tissue is a collection of similar cells that work together with intercellular substances to perform a specific function in multicellular animals.
  2. Animal tissues are divided into four groups: epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue, and neural tissue.

Muscular tissue:

  1. Muscle fibers are tiny, elongated cells that make up the muscle.
  2. Muscles are involved in all of the body's movements.
  3. Muscles are of three types, skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.
  4. Skeletal muscles are muscles that are linked to bones. Abdominal muscles and biceps are two examples.
  5. Smooth muscles are found in the walls of internal organs such as the intestine and blood vessels.
  6. Cardiac muscle tissue is contractile tissue present only in the heart.

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