Question

Categorize the following: intestinal muscles, heart muscles, hand muscles, and neck muscles.

Answer 1

Intestinal and heart muscles are involuntary muscles; hand and neck muscles are voluntary muscles.

Answer 2

Answer:

The given muscles can be categorized into following categories:

Smooth muscles: These are involuntary muscles and non-striated muscles which are usually found within the walls of internal organs such as stomach, intestine, uterus et cetera.

Cardiac muscles: These are involuntary and striated muscles which are only associated with the heart.

Skeletal muscles: These are voluntary in nature and striated in structure. They are anchored to the bones with the help of tendons. They help in skeletal movement such as maintaining posture, locomotion et cetera. For example, hand muscles and neck muscles.