Look at the nuclei. And the shape. Like, cardiac muscle cells are branched.sr243 wrote:How do you tell the difference between smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle. I know that the skeletal and cardiac muscle have striations while the smooth doesn't but what else? I also know that cardiac is branched while smooth is pretty linear. I can't tell the difference when the pictures are small such as the one on SOninja's test. Is there a way to tell under a microscope as well, just in case we have to do that.
EDIT: didn't see Flavorflav's post