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Yolanda

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For skeletal muscles to contract, it is necessary to have stimulation by impulses from motor nerves. Muscles perform in groups. List the three classifications of muscles that work together to perform movement and describe their actions.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Antagonist is a muscle that counteracts the action of another muscle.
Prime mover or agonist is a muscle that is primary in a given movement. Its contraction produces the movement.
Synergist is a muscle that acts with another muscle to produce movement.

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