Which statement explains how muscle and bone tissues work together in the human musculoskeletal system?
Muscle tissues contract to pull on bones, causing movement at joints.
Skeletal muscles are attached to bones by tendons. When a muscle contracts, it shortens and pulls on the bone it is attached to, and the bone moves at a joint, which acts as a pivot.
Muscles can only pull, not push, so they work in antagonistic pairs; for example, the biceps contracts to bend the arm at the elbow and the triceps contracts to straighten it. The bones provide the rigid framework and levers, and the muscles provide the pulling force.
Bone tissue cannot contract; only muscle tissue can. Cartilage is made by cartilage cells (chondrocytes), not by muscle. Minerals such as calcium and phosphate that strengthen bones come from the diet and are deposited by bone cells, not produced by muscle.
Hence, Muscle tissues contract to pull on bones, causing movement at joints.
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