To contract and shorten.
Skeletal muscle is striated and voluntrary. Smooth muscle, as is found around the blood vessels and in many organs, is not striated and involuntary. The heart (cardiac muscle) is the only place you have striated involuntary muscle.
skeletal muscle
Cardiac muscle is striated because the only cardiac muscle in your body is your heart and your heart never stops working unless you die.
A thin membrane enclosing a striated muscle fiber. Its the function of 'a cover' of a cell.
smooth muscle cell tissue
They are striated because striated means kind of stripey and the muscles has stripes of muscle itself.
skelatal
Striated
Striated Thornbill was created in 1838.
Striated Pardalote was created in 1789.
No, cardiac muscle is striated but involuntary.