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Types of muscle tissue

Types of muscle tissue: Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac.

Muscle tissues differ in structure. Skeletal muscle fibres are packed into regular parallel bundles. Smooth muscle has bundles of thin and thick filaments. Cardiac muscle bundles are branched but connected.

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