$(a)$ Voluntary muscles are also known as skeletal muscles. Justify.
$(b)$ Give two structural characteristics of these voluntary muscles.

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(N/A) These muscles are called skeletal muscles because they are primarily attached to the bones of the skeleton and facilitate body movement.
$(b)$ Two structural characteristics are:
$(i)$ They exhibit alternating light and dark bands (striations) under a microscope.
$(ii)$ They are multinucleated (contain many nuclei) and the cells are cylindrical and unbranched.

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