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Which muscle type is found exclusively in the heart?

  • A Skeletal muscle
  • B Smooth muscle
  • C Cardiac muscle
  • D Visceral muscle

Correct answer: C. Cardiac muscle

Explanation: Cardiac muscle is found only in the heart. It is striated like skeletal muscle but involuntary, with branched, uninucleate fibres joined by 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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