If a stimulus, several times greater than the threshold stimulus is provided to a muscle fibre, it will

If a stimulus, several times greater than the threshold stimulus is provided to a muscle fibre, it will
  1. contract with a larger force
  2. contract with a smaller force
  3. contract with the same force
  4. undergo tetany.

Solution

A muscle fibre would contract only when it receives stimulation of certain intensity called threshold stimulus. Response of a muscle fibre to a stimulus is not proportional to its intensity. It is absent when the intensity is subliminal. Muscle fibre contracts to the maximum whether the stimulus has threshold value or supraliminal value.

Asked in: NEET 2002

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