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Which of the following is not a function of smooth muscle tissue? elevating hairs on the arm altering the diameter of the respiratory passageways moving food materials along the digestive tract forcing blood from the heart into the major arteries forcing urine out of the urinary tract

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The correct answer is-forcing blood from the heart into the major arteries.

Step-by-step explanation:

Smooth muscle is non-striated muscles but skeletal muscles and cardiac muscles that are striated muscles. These striated cardiac muscles have function in force generation and contraction in the heart so that the heart can pump the blood into major arteries.

These striations are not present in smooth muscles so the contraction in smooth muscle is slow therefore the heart is not made up of smooth muscle rather it is made up of mainly cardiac muscles.

Smooth muscles are present in the digestive tract, respiratory tract, urinary tract, blood vessels and helps in the transport of substance in these tracts but not present in the heart so forcing blood into arteries is not the function of smooth muscle tissue.

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