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What muscle can do?

Muscles can contract and shorten


What muscles are called voluntary muscles?

because its attach to the bones movement is a shorten shorten contrast


When muscles contract what do they do?

Shorten


What identifies proteins that allow muscles to shorten or lengthen?

Contractile proteins is the term that identifies the proteins that allow muscles to shorten or lengthen.


What are muscles are called?

because its attach to the bones movement is a shorten shorten contrast


Which of theae tissues that can shorten of contract?

muscles


What term identifies proteins that allows muscles to shorten or lengthen?

Contractile proteins is the term that identifies the proteins that allow muscles to shorten or lengthen.


What happen when muscles shorten?

What happens when a muscle shortens is that it is contracting. This is when the fibers of the muscles generate tension.


What ist the process called that causes the cell to contract or shorten?

This process is called contraction. Muscles shorten or contract to produce movement.


When muscles shorten and thicken as they contract it is better known as?

Isotonic ContractionForm of muscle contraction in which the muscles shorten and thicken as they contract.Solomon, E. P. (1992). Introduction to human anatomy and physiology. Philadelphia: Saunders.


Muscles are only able to pull they never push.?

Yes, muscles can only shorten and relax. They can only pull.


What are the other names for voluntary muslces?

another name for voluntary muscles are skeletal or striated muscles.