Answers. Best Answer: Cardiac and smooth muscle cells have gap junctions, and as a result, they contract in waves, nearly all of them contracting in sequence every time.We would have no dexterity, no fine muscle control, if skeletal muscles also had gap junctions.We are able to contract just small numbers of muscle cells, when we want to, and that gives up the fine control. The only reason we can do that is because skeletal muscles are independent of each other.orry, something has gone wrong. Best Answer: Cardiac and smooth muscle cells have gap junctions, and as a result, they contract in waves, nearly all of them contracting in sequence every time.