The protein whose removal enables myosin to bind actin in smooth muscle is

a. tropomyosin.
b. caldesmon
c. myosin light chain kinase
d. calmodulin
e. synapsin


B

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________ is characterized by a decrease in blood Ca2+ level, which may result in cardiac arrest and tetany of skeletal muscles.

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