A weightlifter uses muscles so the muscles exert more than 75% of their maximum tension. This stimulates

A. shrinking of skeletal muscle.
B. conversion of skeletal to smooth muscle.
C. an increase in slow, fatigable white fibers.
D. muscle fibers developing new filaments of actin and myosin.


Answer: D

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