What Causes the Darker Color of Dark Meat in Chickens

question 26

Multiple Choice

What causes the darker color of dark meat in chickens?

• A) an abundance of myoglobin in the dark meat muscle cells
• B) the higher density of mitochondria in dark meat muscle cells
• C) the abundant sarcoplasmic reticulum in dark meat muscle cells
• D) the accumulation of blood within dark meat muscle cells

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A spread of values, emerging from the statistical study of a sample, which has a likelihood of including the value of a non-disclosed population parameter.

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The arithmetic average of a dataset, found by adding all the numbers in the set and dividing by the count of numbers.

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