
Refer to the figure below, and then answer the question that follows.

-You have a job as an assistant in a morgue.You are startled (almost to death)when a corpse that recently came in suddenly sits up and remains very stiff.This muscle contraction and stiffness in a dead body is known as rigor mortis.Using your knowledge of the ADP/ATP cycle and its role in muscle contraction,explain why rigor mortis occurs.
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