Body Stuff Idk

Question 1

Describe the structure of cartilage?

Answer 1

-a vascular smooth elastic tissue made of chondrocytes which produce extensive extracellular matrix (ECM)
-ECM mainly contain collagen & proteroglycan

Question 2

Name the 3 types of muscle in the body and where they are located.

Answer 2

Cardiac: exclusively in the heart
Smooth: walls of blood vessels and intestines
Skeletal: attached to incompressible skeleton by tendons

Question 3

Describe the gross structure of skeletal muscle

Answer 3

-Muscle cells are fused together to form bundles of parallel muscle fibres.
-arrangement ensure there is no point of weakness between cells
-each bundle is surrounded by endomysium: loose connective tissue with many capillaries