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Why is it a good thing that cardiac muscle is striated unlike smooth muscle?
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Why is it a good thing that cardiac muscle is striated unlike smooth muscle?

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Skeletal and cardiac muscles are known as striated muscles, because the filaments of actin and myosin that power their contraction are organized into repeating arrays, called sarcomeres, that have a striated microscopic appearance.
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