Select the Correct Statement About the Function of Myocardial Cells

question 31

Multiple Choice

Select the correct statement about the function of myocardial cells.

• A) The influx of potassium ions from extracellular sources is the initiating event in cardiac muscle contraction.
• B) Cardiac muscle cells are innervated by sympathetic, parasympathetic, and somatic nerve fibers so that the nervous system can increase heart rate.
• C) The refractory period in skeletal muscle is much longer than that in cardiac muscle.
• D) The entire heart contracts as a unit or it does not contract at all.

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Definitions:

Stocks

Financial instruments representing ownership interests in corporations, providing holders with a claim on part of the corporation's assets and earnings.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all up and dividing by the count of the numbers.

Variance

The average of the squared differences from the Mean, providing a measure of how spread out a data set is.

Expected Value

The weighted average of all possible values that a random variable can take on, weighted by the probabilities of those values.