Question

What are the types of muscles?

Answer 1

Muscular system is of three types. Skeletal muscles, visceral muscles and cardiac muscles.

Explanation:

Body muscles constitute 35-40 percent of body weight.
Skeletal muscles are striated and voluntary in action.
Visceral muscles are smooth in appearance and involuntary in action.
Cardiac muscles are striated but involuntary.
Striations are the organized muscle proteins in a contractile unit of the multicellular muscle fiber.

All muscles have a unique property if irritability and contractility.