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    • Types of muscle tissue: Skeletal, Smooth and Cardiac.
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    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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