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Cell Animal/Plant Structure Implies Helps Maintain Shape Internal

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As its name implies, the ___ helps to maintain cell shape. The internal movement of cell organelles, as well as cell locomotion and muscle fiber contraction could not take place without it. It is an organized network of three primary protein filaments:

    - microtubules
    - actin filaments (microfilaments)
    - intermediate fibers
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