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Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.

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Q: Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?
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Why can smooth muscles move on purpose but cardiac muscles can't?

Both smooth and cardiac muscles are involuntary. Skeletal is the one that can move "on purpose."


How is cardiac muscles similar to smooth muscles?

they both contract and relax to cause movement and both are uninucleated.


What do smooth muscles and cardiac muscles have in common?

What cardiac and smooth muscle has in common is that they are both involuntary.


Give examples of three types of muscles?

Smooth Muscle, Cardiac Muscle, and Skeletal Muscle


Which muscles are involuntaries?

smooth muscles and cardiac muscles


Are cardiac muscles and smooth muscles involuntary or voluntary muscles?

Both cardiac and smooth muscles are involuntary. The only voluntary muscle type is skeletal muscle.


How is cardiac muscle similar to smooth muscle?

Cardiac muscle tissue, like skeletal and smooth muscle tissue, can undergo hypertrophy.Unlike both smooth and skeletal muscle, cardiac muscles have cells that branch.


What are the 3 main types of muscles?

Skeletal, smooth, cardiac


What does acetycholine do to muscles?

Acetylcholine acts to excite skeletal muscles, allowing for the muscle to contract. It also serves to allow contractions in the smooth muscles, while slowing down the cardiac muscles


Cardiac muscles and smooth muscles are both voluntary or involuntary muscles?

Both cardiac and smooth muscles are involuntary. The only voluntary muscle type is skeletal muscle.


What muscles is involuntary?

The cardiac and smooth muscles are involuntary. The cardiac is found only in the heart and the smooth muscles are found mostly inside the walls of organs.


Do cardiac muscles and smooth muscles both are voluntary or involuntary?

Both cardiac and smooth muscles are involuntary. The only voluntary muscle type is skeletal muscle.