Exercise 6

Question 1

What is Epethelial tissue?

Answer 1

-Covers a body surface or lines a body cavity.
-Protect, absorb, filtrate, excrete, secrete, and in sensory information.

Question 2

What is Connective Tissue

Answer 2

-The most abundant tissue type in the body.
-Protect, support, insulate and bind body tissues.

Question 3

What is Muscle Tissue

Answer 3

-All body flesh, heart, and the walls of hollow
organs
-Highly specialized to contract and produce most
types of body movement.

Question 4

What is Nervous Tissue

Answer 4

-CNS (brain and spinal cord), and PNS (nervous
elements outside the CNS
-Receive stimuli, and generate electrical signals

Question 5

Distinguishing Characteristics of Epethelia tissue

Answer 5

Polarity (the two sides are different; not a difference
in electrical charge)
● Specialized connections keeping cells tightly
together
● Supported by connective tissue: reticular lamina
● Avascular but Innervated
● Regenerative Ability

Question 6

Types of epithelium and how to classify
them

Answer 6

1. Arrangement - # of layers
   ● Simple – 1 layer
   ● Stratified – more than 1 layer
   Epithelial Tissue

● 2. Cell Shape
● Squamous
● Cuboidal
● Longitudinal

Question 7

Distinguishing Characteristics of Connective tissue

Answer 7

Common origin – all derived from embryonic tissue
● Degrees of vascularity – highly vascular with two
exceptions:
● Cartilage is Avascular
● Dense connective tissue is poorly vascularized
● Extracellular matrix – cells are spaced apart, and
there is lots of matrix in between.
● Ground Substance
● Fibers
● Collagen
● Reticular
● elastic

Question 8

4 Types of Connective Tissue

Answer 8

Connective Tissue Proper
● Loose Connective tissue
● Dense Connective tissue
Connective
Tissue
● Cartilage
● Hyaline
● Elastic
● Fibro-
● Bone

Question 9

3 Distinct types of muscle tissue

Answer 9

• Multi-nucleate
• No Striations
• Intercalated discs