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Tissue: The Living Fabric Flashcards

1
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What is the nervous system in charge of?

A

Internal communication

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2
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What is the purpose of muscle tissue?

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Contract to cause muscle movement

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What is the purpose of the epithelial tissue?

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To form boundaries between different environments, protect, secrete, absorb and filter

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What is the purpose of connective tissue?

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To support protect and bind other tissues together

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5
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What type of organisms do everything needed to survive themselves?

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Unicellular organisms

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True or False. The individual cells in the body are specialized.

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True

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7
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What is a group of cells of similar structure and function?

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Tissues

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8
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What are the 4 basic tissue types?

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Epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous

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9
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How do you remember the 4 basic tissue types?

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Energetic cats make noise!

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10
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What is a sheet of cells that covers body surfaces or cavities and forms boundaries between different environments?

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Epithelial Tissue

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What are the two main forms of epithelial tissue?

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Covering/lining epithelia and grandular tissue

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Where do you find covering and lining epithelia?

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On external and internal surfaces

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13
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Where do you find glandular epithelia?

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Secretory tissues in salivary glands?

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14
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What are the 5 distinguishing characteristics of epithelial tissue?

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  1. Polarity
  2. Specialized contacts
  3. Supported by connective tissues
  4. Avascular, but innervated
  5. Regeneration
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15
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True or false. Cells have a distinct top and bottom.

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True

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16
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What is the top of the cell called?

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Apical surface

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17
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What is the bottom of the cell called?

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Basal surface

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18
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What are the lateral contact points that bind adjacent epithelial cells together?

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Tight junctions and desmosomes

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19
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What reinforces the epithelial sheet?

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Basement membrane

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20
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True or False. Blood vessels are not found in epithelial tissue, but epithelium is supplied by nerve fibers.

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True

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21
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The first name of epithelial tissue indicates what?

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The number of cell layers

22
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The second name of epithelial tissues indicates what?

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The shape of the cells

23
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What are the functions of simple epithelia?

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Absorption, secretion and filtration

24
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What type of simple epithelium has flat cells and sparse cytoplasm?

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Simple squamous epithelium

25
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Where are 2 special squamous epithelia found in the body?

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The lining of the lymphatic vessels, blood vessels, and heart.

Serous membranes in the ventral body cavity.

26
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Which simple epithelia consists of a single layer of cells?

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Simple cuboidal epithelium

27
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What type of simple epithelia forms walls of smallest ducts of glands and many kindle tubules?

A

Simple cuboidal epithelium

28
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What is the function of simple cuboidal epithelium?

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Secretion and absorption

29
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What has a single layer of tall, closely packed cells?

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Simple columnar epithelium

30
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Where can you find the simple columnar epithelium?

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Digestive tract, bronchi and gallbladder

31
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What type of cells appear to be multi-layered and stratified?

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Pseudo-Stratified Columnar Epithelium

32
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Where can you find Pseudo-Stratified Columnar Epithelium?

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Mostly in upper respiratory tract

33
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What is more durable than simple epithelia?

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Stratified epithelia

34
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How do new cells regenerate in stratified epithelia?

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From below, basal cells divide and migrate toward surface

35
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What is the most widespread type of stratified epithelia?

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Stratified squamous epithelium

36
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Describe stratified squamous epithelium

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The free surface is squamous, with cuboidal or columnar layers below

37
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What type of epithelia has the ability to change shape when stretched?

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Transitional epithelium

38
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Where can you find transitional epithelium?

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Lining of bladder, ureters, and urethra

39
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What is a gland?

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One or more cells that makes and secretes fluid

40
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How are glands classified?

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Number of cells forming gland and the site of product release

41
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Endocrine secretes into ________.

A

Bloodstream

42
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Exocrine secretes onto a ________.

A

Surface

43
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What ductless glands secrete hormones into blood or lymph?

A

Endocrine glands

44
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What are the 2 important unicellular glands?

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Mucous cells and goblet cells

45
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Where can you find mucous and goblet cells?

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Respiratory tracts and in the epithelial lining of intestines

46
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What produces mucin?

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Unicellular glands

47
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What is mucin?

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A sugar-protein that dissolves in water to form mucus

48
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A multicellular glandular exocrine gland is composed of what?

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A duct and secretory unit

49
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Merocrine glands secrete their products by _____.

A

Exocytosis

50
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Holocrine glands _______ releasing secretions and dead cell fragments.

A

Rupture

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