Tissues

Question 1

What is a tissue?

Answer 1

A collection of cells bonded together to serve a specific purpose

Question 2

What is an organ?

Answer 2

A collection of two or more tissues working to serve one or more functions in the body

Question 3

What are the four main types of tissue in the human body?

Answer 3

nervous, muscular, epithelial, and connective

Question 4

Which type of tissue makes up the nervous system?

Answer 4

nervous tissue

Question 5

What is the structure of nervous tissue that has a cell body, dendrites, and an axon?

Answer 5

neuron

Question 6

Your nervous system contains your _______, your spinal cord, your _________________, and your peripheral nervous system

Answer 6

brain, central nervous system (CNS)

Question 7

What are the three types of muscle tissue?

Answer 7

smooth, skeletal, and cardiac

Question 8

Where is the only place you’ll find cardiac muscle?

Answer 8

the heart

Question 9

What type of muscle tissue are the blood vessels made of?

Answer 9

smooth

Question 10

What type of muscle tissue allows you to move?

Answer 10

skeletal

Question 11

What are the stripes that we can seen in skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue called?

Answer 11

striations

Question 12

Which type of muscle tissue looks clean, organized, and has striations when looked at under a microscope?

Answer 12

skeletal

Question 13

Which type of muscle tissue has no striations and looks like a bunch of football-shaped cells connected together?

Answer 13

smooth

Question 14

Which type of tissue covers and protects the body?

Answer 14

epithelial tissue

Question 15

Which type of tissue supports and binds the body?

Answer 15

connective tissue

Question 16

What are the four types of connective tissue?

Answer 16

proper, cartilage, bone, and blood

Question 17

What are the three shapes of epithelial tissue?

Answer 17

squamous (“scale”), cuboidal (“cube”), and columnar (“column”)

Question 18

Does epithelial tissue have its own blood supply?

Answer 18

No. Epithelial tissue is avascular (no blood vessels)

Question 19

Does connective tissue have its own blood supply?

Answer 19

Yes. Different types of connective tissue have different amounts of vascularity

Question 20

What is the extracellular matrix of connective tissue?

Answer 20

It is the non-living connective web of fibers that contain the few cells of the tissue together. (think of the Jello dessert with the pieces of fruit inside of it; the matrix is the Jello, the cells are the fruit.

Question 21

What is the common name we have for the protective barrier of our body made of epithelial cells attached to a web of connective tissue?

Answer 21

skin

Question 22

Other than protection, what is the role of the cuboidal and columnar epithelial cells?

Answer 22

to produce hormones and materials for the body (like growth hormone, sweat, snot, and saliva)