The top surface of epithelial tissue is called this.
What is the apical (free) surface?
This type of blood cell carries oxygen.
What is red blood cells?
What type of tissue is bone?
Connective tissue
What is the job of nervous tissue?
Send signals/impulses throughout the body
What type of connective tissue? Dense or loose
Loose connective
The deepest surface of epithelial tissue is called this.
What is the basement surface?
The fibers in dense regular connective tissue run in this arrangement.
What is one direction?
What are the 2 types of bone?
Spongy & compact
The 3 types of muscle tissues found in the body
Smooth, skeletal, cardiac
This type of gland secretes hormones directly into the bloodstream.
What is endocrine gland?
This type of tissue.
Simple cuboidal epithelium
Extracellular matrix is mostly made of these two components.
Ground substance & fibers (collagen)
DAILY DOUBLE:
The two types of blood cells...What is each's function?
What are red blood cells and white blood cells?
Red (erythrocytes)- carry oxygen
White (leukocytes)- provide immune response
What type of tissue is this?
Neuron
How does the holocrine cell release its contents?
The whole cell ruptures and spill products into the duct.
Epithelial tissue is classified by these two characteristics.
What are the number of layers and the shape of the cells?
Comprised of fat cells, insulates and warms the body.
What are the four main functions of connective tissues?
Support/bind, insulate, protect, transport
Which type of muscle tissue is striated and contracts involuntarily?
Cardiac muscle
This type of muscle is nonstriated and involuntary.
Smooth muscle
This type of tissue.
What is transitional epithelium?
Name the 4 types of connective tissue.
Bone, Blood, Connective tissue proper, Cartilage
Outer ear and tip of nose
DAILY DOUBLE:
What are the 2 types of nervous tissue?
Which one is more common in the body?
Neurons, neuroglia. Neuroglia is more common
Provides flexible cushioning and found between vertebrae & in arteries
Elastic dense cartilage