Final answer:
Transmissibility is not a characteristic common to all three types of muscle tissue; rather, muscle tissues are characterized by excitability, extensibility, and contractility.
Step-by-step explanation:
The characteristic that is not common to all three types of muscle tissue (skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle) from the options given is A) transmissibility. Muscle tissues are known for several key characteristics: they are excitable, meaning they respond to stimuli; they have extensibility, allowing them to stretch; and they have contractility, meaning they can shorten to generate force. While 'transmissibility' is not typically listed as a characteristic of muscle tissue, the term closest to any function of muscle tissue would be excitability, which refers to the ability of muscles to respond to stimuli, often mediated by the nervous system.