QuestionBiology / animal tissues
Cells of which one of the following tissues in animals undergo contraction and relaxation?
- (a) Muscular tissue
- (b) Connective tissue
- (c) Epithelial tissue
- (d) Nervous tissue
Answer: (a) Muscular tissue
Muscular tissue has contractile proteins (actin, myosin) that contract and relax, causing movement. Nervous tissue conducts impulses; connective tissue binds; epithelium covers.