What two types of muscle tissue are striated?

Biology · High School · Mon Jan 18 2021

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Correct answer is skeletal and cardiac muscles . 

Explanation: Striated musculature is comprised of two types of tissues: skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle. Skeletal muscle is the tissue that most muscles attached to bones are made of. Hence the word "skeletal". Cardiac muscle, on the other hand, is the muscle found on the walls of the heart.

Microscopically both the skeletal and cardiac musculature have a “striated” appearance due to their densely packed myofibrils.  Therefore they are referred to as striated muscle tissue. However, they differ partly in their histology and physiology.