Multiple choice

Which among the following does not characterise cardiac muscle?

  1. Forms Purkinje fibers

  2. Exits as a discrete unit

  3. Attached through intercalated discs

  4. Consists of individual cells
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Each end of a cardiac muscle cell may link to two or more other cells, so that the fibrous structure of cardiac muscle seems to be branched unlike skeletal muscle, where each fibre is a single and discrete unit .

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