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What is epithelial tissue?

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A thin layer of tissue that covers organs, glands, and other structures within the body

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What are the types of epithelial tissue?

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Squamous Epithelial Tissue
Columnar Epithelial Tissue
Endothelium Tissue

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What is the structure of the squamous epithelial tissue?

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1 cell thick
Smooth and flat layer

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4
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What is the function of the squamous epithelial tissue?

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Make diffusion faster

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Where is the squamous epithelial tissue found?

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Alveoli

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What is the structure of the columnar epithelial tissue?

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Column shaped ciliated cells

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What is the function of the columnar epithelial tissue?

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Protects against infections

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Where is the columnar epithelial tissue found?

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Trachea

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What is the structure of the endothelium tissue?

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1 layer thick
Layer of flattened cells lining all blood cells

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10
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What is the function of the endothelium tissue?

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Formation of new blood vessels

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Where is the endothelium tissue found?

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Lining for the heart and blood vessels

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12
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What are the types of muscle tissue?

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Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth

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13
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What is striated?

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The repeating bands of protein along the muscles

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14
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What muscles are striated?

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Skeletal
Cardiac

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What muscles are non- voluntary?

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Cardiac
Smooth

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16
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Where is the smooth muscles found?

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Walls of hollow organs like the stomach or bladder

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Extend muscles

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18
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What the types of muscle fibre?

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Slow Twitch
Fast twitch

19
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What are slow twitch muscles good for?

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Endurance Running

20
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What are fast twitch muscles good for?

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Sprinting

21
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What type of of muscle fibre has lots of mitochondria?

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Slow Twitch

22
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What type of respiration is slow twitch muscles?

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Aerobic

23
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What type of respiration is fast twitch muscles?

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Anaerobic

24
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Which muscle fibre types has lots of myoglobin?

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Slow Twitch

25
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What colour are slow twitch muscles?

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Red

26
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What colour are fast twitch muscles?

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White

27
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Muscle contraction

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28
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What is the central nervous system?

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a system that makes up millions of nerve cells which carry electrical impulses around the body

29
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What are the types of nerve cells?

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Myelinated
Non-Myelinated

30
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What is a nerve cell?

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a cell which carries electrical impulses from the brain to the rest of the body

31
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Parts of a nerve cell

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Axon terminal
Dendrite
Soma
Node
Axon
Nucleus
Myelin Sheath

32
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What is an axon?

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33
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What is an axon terminal?

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34
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What is an dendrite?

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35
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What is a myelin sheath?

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36
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What is a soma?

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37
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What is synapse?

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The gap between neurons

38
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What is a neurotransmitter?

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The chemical that transports the action potential across the synapse to the next neuron

39
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What is the synaptic bulb?

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the neuron ends which are swelling where the neurotransmitters are stored

40
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Where are neurotransmitters contained?

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In the vesicles in the synaptic bulb

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