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4. What would you expect the striations in skeletal and cardiac muscles to look like under a microscope?

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The structural view of skeletal and cardiac muscles under the microscope is explained below:

Explanation:

Skeletal muscle:

The skeletal muscles look striped or striated under microscopic view.

skeletal muscle fibers are packed into regular parallel bundles.

These fibers contain alternate light and dark bands that look like horizontal stripes(striation) on a rugby shirt.

cardiac muscles:

Like Skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles are also striped or striated in structure.

The fibers are branched like a tree but connected at ends.

The thick and thin filaments do not overlap and hence they appear as paler under microscope view.

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