Practice mode Support and Movement

Skeletal muscle fibres are multinucleate because ____.

Correct answer B. each fibre forms by fusion of many embryonic myoblasts

Explanation

During development, many uninucleate myoblasts fuse to form one long fibre (a syncytium). Its nuclei lie at the periphery just beneath the sarcolemma.

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