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Describe how muscles work with bones to allow locomotion
in humans.

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Answer: Muscles work with bones by contracting and tugging on the bones and help the bones move, enabling various actions including standing, walking, running, and gripping objects.

Step-by-step explanation:

The musculoskeletal system supports the body and enables locomotion in humans and many other animal species. The musculoskeletal system of the body is made up of the bones (the skeletal system), muscles (the muscular system), cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue that supports and holds tissues and organs together.

By contracting and tugging on the bones, the muscles help the bones move, enabling various actions including standing, walking, running, and gripping objects. Different bones are joined together by joints to permit motion. In these joints, connective tissues bind bones to one another and to muscle fibers (tendons and ligaments). The bone ends are shielded from direct contact by cartilage. To move the bone linked at the joint, muscles contract.

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Your muscle fibers contract (tense up) in response to the message. When the muscle activates or bunches up, it pulls on the tendon. Tendons attach muscles to bones. The tendon pulls the bone, making it move.
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