BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
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Muscles provide strength, balance, and posture to the body. There are three types of muscles in a vertebrate: skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles. Cardiac and smooth muscles are involuntary while skeletal muscles are voluntary in nature.

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