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Chapter 41, Problem 7U
Skeletal muscle cells are
a. large multinucleate cells that arise by growth.
b. large multinucleate cells that arise by fusion of smaller cells.
c. small cells connected by many gap junctions.
d. large cells with a single nucleus.
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