Life: The Science of Biology
Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 47.1, Problem 3R
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The reason behind the muscle stiffening after death that occurs first in those muscles, which have least glycogen content.

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Rigor mortis is the situation, in which muscles get stiffed after death. The condition arises due to the inability of myosin to get detached from the actin filaments as a result, of which the muscles remain in the contracted state.

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