What is the cause of the striated appearance of skeletal and cardiac muscle?

A) the nuclei of the muscle cells
B) the connections of neurons to muscle cells
C) the arrangement of intercalated discs
D) the repeating arrangement of the contractile proteins, actin and myosin
E) the stacking of muscle cells


D

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