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Which muscle tissues in the body are going to have the high number of Mitochondria and why?

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Skeletal muscle cells are long, cylindrical, multi-nucleated and striated. Each nucleus regulates the metabolic requirements of the sarcoplasm around it. Skeletal muscle cells have high energy requirements, so they contain many mitochondria in order to generate sufficient ATP.

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