You work in a lab and are given a slide with a stained specimen on it, but your colleague forgot to label the slide. You look at the specimen under the microscope and notice that the cells are branched, striated, and contain one or two nuclei. Based on these characteristics, what type of tissue would you hypothesize the specimen is?

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The branched, striated, and multinucleated cells are characteristic of muscle tissue. Specifically, this description matches with cardiac muscle tissue, which has a branching pattern and striations similar to skeletal muscle, but with one or two nuclei per cell. Therefore, the best choice is D) muscle.

You Work in a Lab and Are Given a Slide