Chicken leg dissection

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First we looked as smooth muscle as in the oesophagus, also know as involuntary muscle because not under conscious control.  The oespophagus carries out peristalsis to push the bolus of food along to the stomach.

Then we skinned the thigh and leg to find the Skeletal muscle (voluntary).  The contraction of the muscle generates a force which pulls on a bone to move it.  We looked for the fasiculi ( bundles of muscle fibres enclosed in a membranous sheath)

Then we dissected out individual bundles and pulled on the tendons to make the toes move