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29. A 16-year-old boy participates in a study of exercise and muscle hypertrophy. After a pretraining biopsy specimen of the quadriceps muscle is obtained, he begins a weight-lifting program to increase the mass and strength of the quadriceps muscle. After 3 months of training, a second muscle biopsy specimen is taken for histologic assessment of skeletal muscle characteristics. Compared with the pretraining sample, the post-training sample is most likely to show which of the following findings?

Number of Amount of Actin Total Number
Mitochondria per Myocyte of Myocytes
A ↑ ↑ ↑

B ↑ ↑ no change

C ↑ no change ↑

D ↑ no change no change

E No change ↑ ↑

F No change ↑ no change

G No change no change ↑

H No change no change no change



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B








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