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Muscles work together by pulling and pushing in order to move limbs around. For instance, the biceps and triceps move in alternative fashions to hinge the elbow, allowing for arm movements.
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Why skeleton muscles or voluntary muscles are arranged in antagonistic pairs?
Voluntary Muscles can contract or pull but, they cannot push. When they are finished pulling and are relaxed, their antagonists on the other side of the couple must pull the joint back.
How many muscles used to swallow?
30 pairs of muscles
Which structures work in antagonistic pairs to move bones?
Skeletal muscles
What muscles work in antagonistic pairs?
Antagonistic pair is a combination of agonist and antagonist muscles that only one contracts and the other one relaxes. The biceps in a human body are an example of it.
What is it that muscles are not able to do?
Muscles can only pull not push. That is why they work in pairs an example is your tricep and bicep, your bicep pulls your arm up and your tricep pulls your arm down.
Muscles that work in pairs are called what?
they are called antagonistic muscles.
What is the pairs of muscles are attached to the joints When one of the muscles contacts the other?
relaxees
What are the muscles called when they are in pairs?
you find muscle pairs in your legs... like you hamstrings or quadriceps.
How can muscles work in pairs?
ussually, one muscle in the pair bends part of the body.the other muscle straightens part of the body.
Muscle that work in opposite pairs are called?
antagonistic muscles
Since muscles can only pull and not push each muscle is matched with another on the opposite side What are these pairs of muscles called?
they are called complimentary muscles
Are muscles that work in pairs called tissues?
No!Muscles that work in pairs are called antagonistic muscles.Tissue is a level between single cells and complete orgenisms, e.g. organs are made out of gruops of tissues.
What are antagonist pairs of muscles?
pairs of muscles that work together
What are antagonist pairs are muscles?
pairs of muscles that work together
Why are skeletal muscles often found in opposing pairs?
Skeletal muscles are found in pairs called flexors and extensors. The flexors bend a joint, and the extensors straighten the joint. Muscles cannot push; they only pull.
Why muscles must work in pairs?
Muscles can only exert force by getting shorter. Muscles work in pairs by one muscle pulling in one direction, the other muscle pulls in the opposite direction. One bends your leg, the other straightens the leg, etc.
What is the correct definition of antagonistic pairs?
muscles that work in opposition to each other
