Plant and Animal tissues Flashcards
What are the four main types of animals tissues?
Muscle tissue, Epithelial tissue, Nerve tissue, Connective tissue.
Whats Connective tissue?
Supports and connects different parts of the body. (Blood, cartilage, and tendons)
What Muscle tissue?
Contracts to cause motion. (Cardiac muscles, smooth muscles, and intestine muscles)
Whats Nerve tissue?
Transmits and receives nerve impulses. (Brain, spinal cord, and nerves)
Whats Epithelial tissue?
Covers the surface of your bodies and lines the inside of your organs and small intestine. (Skin)
What are the three types of plant tissue?
Protective tissue, transport tissues, and photosynthetic tissues.
Whats Protective tissue?
A form covering plants that helps prevent water loss and protects the plant.
Whats transport tissue?
Have hollow cells that move food and water through the plant.
Whats Photosynthetic tissue?
Tissues that transform the Sun’s energy into sugar.
What are the three types of plant organs?
Leaf, Stem, and Root.
What’s cancer?
A disease related to the uncontrolled and rapid reproduction of cells through cell division
What’s a tumour?
A tumour is when a mass of cells continually reproduce but are otherwise non functional
