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Animal Tissues: Structure and Functions

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Answer the following.

Tissue Structure and Function

1. Define tissue:

2. Use the key choices to identify the major tissue types described below.

Key: connective epithelium muscular nervous

________ 1. lines body cavities and covers the body’s external surface

______ 2. pumps blood, flushes urine out of the body, allows one to swing a bat

________ 3. transmits waves of excitation

_________ 4. anchors and packages body organs

_________ 5. cells may absorb, protect, or form a filtering membrane

_______ 6. most involved in regulating body functions quickly

________ 7. major function is to contract

__________ 8. the most durable tissue type

__________ 9. abundant nonliving extracellular matrix

_______ 10. forms nerves

Epithelial Tissue
3. On what bases are epithelial tissues classified?

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4. How is the function of an epithelium reflected in its arrangement?

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5. Where is ciliated epithelium found? _________________________________________

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6. Transitional epithelium is actually stratified squamous epithelium, but there is something special about
it.

How does it differ structurally from other stratified squamous epithelia?

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How does this reflect its function in the body?

7. Using the key, choose the type of epithelial tissue that best fits each description. Some responses may
be used more than once.

Key: pseudostratified ciliated columnar simple cuboidal stratified squamous

simple columnar simple squamous transitional

_____ 1. best suited for areas subject to friction

_____________________ 2. propels substances across its surface

____________________ 3. most suited for rapid diffusion

____________________ 4. tubules of the kidney

_____ 5. lines much of the respiratory tract

______________________ 6. stretches

____________________ 7. lines the small and large intestines

Connective Tissue
8. What is the makeup of the matrix in connective tissues?

9. Describe an example of the relationship between structure of particular connective tissue and its
function. _____________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

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10. Using the key, choose the best response to identify the connective tissues described below. Some

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responses may be used more than once.

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Key: adipose connective tissue reticular connective tissue
areolar connective tissue hyaline cartilage
dense fibrous connective tissue osseous tissue

_______________ 1. attaches bones to bones and muscles to bones

____________ 2. forms your hip bone

_______________ 3.composes basement membranes; a soft packaging tissue with a jellylike matrix

____________ 4. forms the larynx and the costal cartilages of the ribs

_______________ 5. firm matrix heavily invaded with fibers; appears glassy and smooth

_______________ 6. matrix hard; provides levers for muscles to act on

_______________ 7. insulates against heat loss; provides reserve fuel

Muscle Tissue
11. The terms and phrases in the key relate to the muscle tissues. For each of the three muscle tissues,
select the terms or phrases that characterize it, and write the corresponding letter of each term on
the answer line.
Key: a. striated f. voluntary k. attached to bones

b. branching cells g. involuntary l. intercalated discs

c. spindle-shaped cells h. one nucleus m. in wall of bladder and stomach

d. cylindrical cells i. many nuclei n. moves limbs, produces smiles

e. active during birth j. forms heart walls o. arranged in sheets

Skeletal muscle: _____________________________________________________

Cardiac muscle:_____________________________________________________

Smooth muscle: _____________________________________________________

Nervous Tissue
12. In what ways are nerve cells similar to other cells?

___________________________________________________________________________

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How are they different?_______________________________________________________

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2. EXPLORING ANIMAL TISSUES USING PREPARED SLIDES

A. EPITHELIAL TISSUE
On the left column, draw the tissues indicated at the bottom of each box; on the right column,
provide the salient features of tissues on the left box. For the drawing, you may use colored
pencil or pens.

Simple squamous Salient Features

Simple cuboidal Salient Features

Simple columnar Salient Features

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Stratified squamous Salient Features

Transitional epithelium Salient Features

Ciliated columnar Salient Features

Pseudostratified Salient Features

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B. CONNECTIVE TISSUE
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Areolar Salient features

Adipose Salient Features

Dense Regular Connective (tendon) Salient Features

Dense Irregular Connective (dermis) Salient Features

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Hyaline cartilage Salient Features

Elastic cartilage Salient Features

Fibrocartilage Salient Featuires

Bone Salient Features

Blood Salient features

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C. MUSCULAR TISSUE
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Skeletal muscle Salient Features

Cardiac muscle Salient features

Smooth muscle Salient Features

D. NERVOUS TISSUE

Neuron cell Salient Features

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