Mod 4: Tissues

Question 1

What are the four types of tissues that the body contains

Answer 1

Epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle, nerve tissue

Question 2

What tissue contracts to produce movement

Answer 2

Muscle

Question 3

What tissue covers or lines body surfaces

Answer 3

Epithelial tissue

Question 4

The outer layer of the skin, the walls of capillaries, and kidney tubules are part of what tissue?

Answer 4

Epithelial tissue

Question 5

The tissue that connects and supports parts of the body; may also transport and store materials

Answer 5

Connective tissue

Question 6

What tissue include bone, cartilage, and adipose tissue

Answer 6

Connective tissue

Question 7

What tissue generates and transmits impulses to regulate body function

Answer 7

Nerve tissue

Question 8

What are the key functions of the epithelial tissue?

Answer 8

Protection, absorption, filtration, and secretion

Question 9

What are the different classifications of epithelial cells?

Answer 9

Squamos, cuboidal, columnar

Question 10

How are epithelial cells classified?

Answer 10

By cell shape and cell layers

Question 11

What is the structure of a simple epithelia?

Answer 11

Every cell touches the basement membrane

Question 12

What is the structure of a stratified epithelia?

Answer 12

Some cells stack on top of other cells and the upper layers of the cells don’t touch the basement membrane

Question 13

In tissue development, what are the three layers the cells organize into?

Answer 13

Ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm

Question 14

What is the process called when each layer gives rise to the different types of tissues?

Answer 14

Differentiation

Question 15

What is the function of the ectoderm?

Answer 15

outer layer - Gives rise to epidermis and nervous system

Question 16

Function of the endoderm?

Answer 16

inner layer - Produces mucous membrane of respiratory tract, thyroid gland, secretory parts of pancreas

Question 17

Function of the mesoderm?

Answer 17

middle layer - Gives rise to connective and muscle tissue

Question 18

What’s the function of exocrine glands?

Answer 18

Secretes products into ducts

Question 19

Function of the endocrine glands

Answer 19

Secretes hormones into blood

Question 20

What is the most widespread, and the most varied of all the tissues?

Answer 20

Connective tissue

Question 21

What is the role of neurons?

Answer 21

Conduct nervous impulses

Question 22

What is the role of neuroglia?

Answer 22

Protect and assist neurons

Question 23

What is the soma of the neuron, and what does it contain?

Answer 23

Large cell body – contains the nucleus and the organelles

Question 24

Where are the dendrites found, and what is their role?

Answer 24

Multiple extend from the soma -Receive impulses from other cells, which they then transmit to the soma

Question 25

Where is the axon found, and what is the role of the axon?

Answer 25

Neuron contains a single, long nerve fibre - axon - which transmits signals to other cells

Question 26

What is the key component of the extracellular matrix of connective tissue?

Answer 26

The framework into which the cells of tissue are embedded

Question 27

What type of tissue lies underneath almost all epithelia and connects tissues and organs together?

Answer 27

Areolar

Question 28

*What are the basic classifications of connective tissue?

Answer 28

Fibrous connective tissue, Cartilage, bone, and blood

Question 29

Fibrous connective tissue’s maybe either

Answer 29

Dense or loose

Question 30

Loose connective tissues are further Divided as being

Answer 30

Areolar tissue, adipose tissue, reticular issue