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Tendon, a tough connective tissue, joins
ATwo adjacent muscles in the body wall
BBone to bone at a movable joint
CSkeletal muscle to bone
DSkin to underlying muscle layers
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Skeletal muscle to bone
1. Tendons are dense bundles of collagen fibres.
2. They transmit muscle pull to bones for movement.
3. Bone-to-bone joints are bridged by ligaments, not tendons.
4. So tendons join skeletal muscle to bone.
_Source: Selina Concise Biology Class 9, Ch 3 Tissues, Plant and Animal Tissues (Mistral OCR'd PDF), section on tendon_
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