Cardiac muscle ____. 

A. is under voluntary control
B. contracts and relaxes slowly
C. is self-exciting
D. is attached to bones
E. produces peristalsis


C. is self-exciting
Cardiac muscle is self-exciting, so it does not need nerve stimulation to contract.

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