Compare skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle on striations, nuclei, control, junctions and fatigue, and read a sarcomere well enough to say which bands shorten when a muscle contracts.
Muscular tissue is the most predictable chapter of unit 3: the question is nearly always a comparison of the three muscle types, and the answer is nearly always in one table. MEC's scope line is "Structure, location and function". Recall items ask which muscle has intercalated discs or where smooth muscle is found. Understanding items ask why cardiac muscle never fatigues, why skeletal fibres have many nuclei, or which sarcomere band keeps its length. Application items describe a slide, a poisoned neuromuscular junction or a stiff corpse. Learn the comparison table, then the sarcomere.
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