Tissue Types
This type of muscle tissue is attached to bones, is under voluntary control, and allows animals to run, jump, or swim.
What is skeletal muscle?
Because birds need light bodies to fly, their main flight muscles are concentrated down near their body's center of gravity rather than on these body parts.
What are their wings?
Out of the three muscle tissue types, this is the only one that is under voluntary control.
What is skeletal muscle?
Found only in the heart, this muscle tissue contracts rhythmically without stopping and is under involuntary control.
What is cardiac muscle?
Sharks and rays do not have bones, so their skeletal muscles pull directly on a frame made entirely of this flexible tissue.
What is cartilage?
These two types of muscle tissue are both involuntary, meaning an animal's body operates them automatically to keep organs and the heart functioning.
What are smooth and cardiac muscle?
This non-striated, involuntary muscle line the walls of internal organs like the stomach, intestines, and blood vessels in animals.
What is smooth muscle?
Cats have over 30 individual muscles controlling this body part alone, allowing them to swivel it 180 degrees to pinpoint sounds.
What is the ear
While skeletal and cardiac muscles look striped (striated) under a microscope, this tissue type gets its name because its fibers look completely plain and non-striated.
What is smooth muscle?