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AContractility
BElasticity
CExtensibility
DExcitability
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Elasticity
1. Besides excitability, muscle tissue has other passive and active qualities.
2. Elasticity is defined as the ability to recoil back to the original length due to elastic fibers.
3. Extensibility is the separate ability to stretch or extend, not to recoil back.
4. Contractility is the ability to pull on attachment points and shorten with force, a different property from recoil.
_Source: OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology (CC BY 4.0), Ch 10 "Muscle Tissue", section 10.1, p. 406_
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