Tissues

Question 1

What are tissues?

Answer 1

Specialized cell types with specific functions.

Question 2

What are the 4 basic tissue types?

Answer 2

Epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous

Question 3

What is the purpose of epithelial tissues?

Answer 3

Line, protect, and secrete functions

Question 4

What are the epithelial subtypes?

Answer 4

squamous, cuboidal, and columnar

Question 5

What are squamous epithelial tissues?

Answer 5

Simple - Thin flattened cells that increase diffusion of molecules
Stratified - Many layers of cells

Question 6

What is an example of simple squamous epithelial tissue?

Answer 6

Kidney tubules, alveoli, and the capillaries.

Question 7

What is an example of stratified squamous epithelial tissue?

Answer 7

The skin

Question 8

What is cuboidal epithelium tissue?

Answer 8

Tissue with an equal width and height

Question 9

What is an example of cuboidal epithelium tissue?

Answer 9

The glandular tissues and liver

Question 10

What is the columnar epithelial tissue?

Answer 10

Resemble greek columns

Question 11

What is an example of columnar epithelial tissue?

Answer 11

The lining of the small intestine, the colon, and rectum

Question 12

What is the purpose of the connective tissues?

Answer 12

Support and connect other tissues

Question 13

What are the subtypes of connective tissue?

Answer 13

Bone, cartilage, loose connective, dense connective, adipose, basement membrane, and blood tissue

Question 14

What is the bone tissue?

Answer 14

Strong calcium magnesium crystals that support, protect, move, and store calcium in the body.

Question 15

What are osteocytes?

Answer 15

Bone cells

Question 16

What is the cartilage tissue?

Answer 16

Tissue between the bone joints that supports and helps move the skeleton.

Question 17

What are chondrocytes?

Answer 17

Cartilage cells

Question 18

What is the loose connective tissue?

Answer 18

Filled with many collagen proteins at irregular angles. Provides a wide range of motion for tissue with limited distance.

Question 19

What is the dense fibrous connective tissue?

Answer 19

Many protein fibers in a rope like format. Good for flexibility with limited stretch.

Question 20

What is adipose connective tissue?

Answer 20

Fat tissue

Question 21

What is the basement membrane connective tissue?

Answer 21

Thin single cell layers that hold together any simple squamous epithelium tissue.

Question 22

What is the blood tissue?

Answer 22

Supports all other tissues with gas, nutrient, water, waste, and body defense system.

Question 23

What are red blood cells?

Answer 23

More than white blood cells. (1000 to 1) Lacks a nucleus in mature red blood cells.

Question 24

What are platelets?

Answer 24

Small cells that lack a nucleus. Assists with blood clots

Question 25

What are white blood cells?

Answer 25

Cells that defend the body from infections and destroy non-functioning cells. (Multiple types)

Question 26

What is another name for white blood cells?

Answer 26

Leukocytes

Question 27

What are the muscle tissue types?

Answer 27

Skeletal/Voluntary and Cardiac

Question 28

What is skeletal/voluntary muscle tissue?

Answer 28

Parallel cells with visible striations that have many multinucleate cells.

Question 29

What is cardiac muscle tissue?

Answer 29

Non-parallel cells with visible striations that have intercalated discs.

Question 30

What do intercalated discs do?

Answer 30

Induce simultaneous contractions

Question 31

What are the functions of nervous tissue?

Answer 31

Rapid communication, responses, information storage and retrieval

Question 32

What is the basic cell unit of the nervous system?

Answer 32

The neuron