Like skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle:
A. relies on calcium and ATP to contract
B. is controlled by the stimulation of motor units
C. uses temporal summation to increase contractile force
D. has both fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fiber types
E. is multinucleate
Ans: A. relies on calcium and ATP to contract
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