Biology: Concepts and Investigations
Biology: Concepts and Investigations
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Author: Hoefnagels
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The reason how the antagonistic muscle pairs move bones and give example of such a pair.

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Antagonistic muscles include the muscle pairs where one muscle moves the specific portion of the body in one direction and it is moved away in the other direction by the other muscle like the biceps/triceps pair.

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