A vertebrate motor unit is

a. a muscle and the motor neurons that innervate it.
b. a muscle fiber and the motor neurons that innervate it.
c. a motor neuron and the muscle fibers it innervates.
d. a motor neuron and the muscle it innervates.
e. none of these.


C

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