Nervous Tissue
Internal communication and control.
What is the main function of nervous tissue?
Contracting to cause movement.
What is the main function of muscle tissue?
Forming boundaries between different environments, protects, secretes, absorbs, and filters.
What is the main function of epithelial tissue?
Supports, protects, and binds other tissues together.
What is the main function of connective tissue?
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What makes up most nervous tissue?
Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth.
What are the types of muscle tissue?
The lining of the GI tract and other hollow organs plus your skin surface.
Bones, tendons, plus fat and other soft padding tissue.
What makes up all connective tissue?
The number of teams in the NBA.
What is 30?
Irritable and conductive.
What are the hallmarks of nervous tissue?
Irritable and contractile.
What are the hallmarks of muscle tissue?
Made of one free surface, avascular.
What are the hallmarks of epithelial tissue?
Extracellular matrix and varying vascularity.
What are the hallmarks of connective tissue?
The player with the most championship rings in the NBA.
Who is Bill Russell?
Some of the functions of nervous tissue.
What is transmitting electrochemical impulses, being the basis of the major controlling system of the body, and forming the brain and spinal cord?
Some functions of muscle tissue.
What is allowing organ movement within the body, allowing cells of this tissue type to shorten and exert force, and allowing you to smile, grasp, swim, ski, and shoot an arrow?
Some functions of epithelial tissue.
What is supporting body organs, packaging and protecting body organs, characterized by having large amounts of nonliving matrix, and being the most widely distributed tissue type in the body?
The #1 pick of the 2017-18 NBA Draft.
Who is Deandre Ayton?
It looks like a bunch of spiders hanging around from webs.
What is nervous tissue?
Cardiac tissue's functions and/or attributes.
What is being involuntarily controlled, having a single nucleus in each cell, found in the walls of the stomach, uterus, and arteries, containing spindle-shaped cells, and changing the internal volume of an organ as it contracts?
The cells are tightly packed together.
What is a characteristic of epithelial tissue?
It is known as adipose tissue.
What is fat/padding tissue?
The current coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Who is Billy Donovan?