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Tissues
Tissues
TISSUES
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1. What is a tissue?
2. What is the utility of tissues in
multi-cellular organisms?
TISSUE
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6.2.1 MERISTEMATIC
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Apical meristem
Jar 1
Jar 2
Intercalary meristem
Length
Jar 1
Jar 2
TISSUES
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4 Day 5
Lateral meristem
6.2.2 PERMANENT
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Trichome
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Hypodermis
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Mucilaginous canal
Cuticle
Epidermis
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TISSUE
Cortex
Endodermis
Pericycle
Phloem
Cambium
Medullary ray
Xylem
Vascular bundle
Pith
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Intercellular spaces
Wall thickenings
Nucleus
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Vacuole
Cell wall
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Cytoplasm
Nucleus
End wall
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Middle lamella
Chloroplast
Vacuole
Intercellular space
Nucleus
Vacuole
Cytoplasm
Intercellular space
b (ii)
a (ii)
Narrow lumen
Lignified
thick wall
Simple
pit pair
c (i)
c (ii)
Fig. 6.4: Various types of simple tissues: (a) Parenchyma (i) transverse section, (ii) longitudinal section;
(b) Collenchyma (i) transverse section, (ii) longitudinal section; (c) Sclerenchyma (i) transverse section,
(ii) longitudinal section.
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Guard
cells
Stomata
Epidermal
cell
(a)
Guard
cell
(b)
Ruptured epidermis
Cork cells
6.2.2 ((ii
ii
ii)) COMPLEX PERMANENT TISSUE
Xylem
Pit
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Phloem
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TISSUES
(a) Tracheid
(b) Vessel
Pits
Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Sieve plate
Sieve tube
Phloem
parenchyma
Companion cell
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6.3.1 EPITHELIAL
TISSUE
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Nucleus
SCIENCE
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(b) Cuboidal
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(a) Squamous
Fibroblast
Macrophage
Collagen fibre
Plasma cell
Mast cell
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Nucleus
Fat droplet
Reticular fibre
Adipocyte
Haversian canal
(contains blood vessels
and nerve fibres)
(b)
Chondrocyte
Hyaline matrix
(c)
Canaliculus (contains
slender process of bone
cell or osteocyte)
Red blood
corpuscle
(d)
Cytoplasm
Nucleus
Different white
blood corpuscles
Lymphocyte Monocyte
Platelets
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Spindle shaped
muscle cell
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(b)
Striations
Nuclei
(c)
TISSUES
Cell body
What
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1. Name the tissue responsible for
movement in our body.
2. What does a neuron look like?
3. Give three features of cardiac
muscles.
4. What are the functions of areolar
tissue?
Nerve ending
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Axon
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Dendrite
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Nucleus
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Exercises
1. Define the term tissue.
2. How many types of elements together make up the xylem tissue?
Name them.
3. How are simple tissues different from complex tissues in plants?
4. Differentiate between parenchyma, collenchyma and
sclerenchyma on the basis of their cell wall.
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