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go.lag

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on: Oct 19, 2013
The contraction of skeletal muscles is based on
A) actin filaments coiling up to become shorter.
B) myosin filaments coiling up to become shorter.
C) actin and myosin filaments both coiling up to become shorter.
D) actin cross-bridges binding to myosin and then flexing.
E) myosin cross-bridges binding to actin and then flexing.


strangeaffliction

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Reply #1 on: Oct 22, 2013
I recall doing this last year, it's E, take care.


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