A motor unit refers to

a. a single motor neuron plus all of the muscle fibers it innervates.
b. a single muscle fiber plus all of the motor neurons that innervate it.
c. all of the motor neurons supplying a single muscle.
d. a pair of antagonistic muscles.
e. a sheet of smooth muscle cells connected by gap junctions.


A

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