Smooth muscles are:

1. Voluntary and striated
2. Voluntary and unstriated
3. Involuntary and unstraited
4. Involuntary and striated
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Smooth muscles are found in all the following locations except:
1. Wall of blood vessels
2. Wall of stomach
3. Wall of ureter
4. Wall of abdomen

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The structure labelled as A in the given figure:
I: allow the cells to contract as a unit, i.e., when one cell receives a signal to contract, its neighbours are also stimulated to contract.
II: stop the passage of impulse from one cell to another in the tissue.
1. Only I is correct
2. Only II is correct
3. Both I and II are correct
4. Both I and II are incorrect
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Presence of intercalated discs help cardiac muscles to act as a functional syncytium. This is possible because the structure of these discs have:

 
1. Tight junctions 2. Gap junctions
3. Adhering junctions 4. Plasmodesmata
Subtopic:  Glandular Epithelium & Cell Junction | Cardiac Muscle & Smooth Muscle |
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Consider the given two statements:

Assertion (A): Cardiac muscle cells can contract as a unit.
Reason (R): Cardiac muscle tissue is a contractile tissue present only in the heart.
 
1. Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain (A).
3. (A) is True; (R) is False
4. Both (A) and (R) are False
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