When muscles contract, they shorten. Therefore, the movement that muscles can make is to pull the insertion toward the origin.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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A. Parasympathetic B. Sympathetic

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A) plasma. B) lymph. C) blood. D) humoral fluid. E) plasmin fluid.

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