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Skeletal muscle, attached to bones and responsible for voluntary movement, appears under the microscope as:

  • A Composed of cells without any nucleus
  • B Striated and multinucleate
  • C Non-striated and uninucleate
  • D Branched with intercalated discs

Correct answer: B. Striated and multinucleate

Explanation: Skeletal muscle fibres show visible striations and are multinucleate, distinguishing them from smooth muscle (non-striated, uninucleate) and cardiac muscle (branched, with intercalated discs).

Concept context

The four basic animal tissue types (epithelial, connective, muscular, neural) and the cockroach as a model organism for organ-system level organisation.

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