This tissue covers the whole surface of the body. It is made up of cells closely packed and ranged in one or more layers. This tissue is specialized to form the covering or lining of all internal and external body surfaces.
What is epithelial tissue?
100
This pigment is the natural sunscreen.
What is melanin?
100
Ultraviolet light converts cholesterol in the skin into this nutrient.
What is vitamin D?
100
This secretion contains fatty acids that can kill bacteria.
What is sebum?
100
Part of this layer is living and part is dead.
What is the epidermis?
200
This tissue provides support and protection. Examples are ligaments, tendons, bones, blood, and cartilage.
What is connective tissue?
200
This pigment is found in carrots and produces a yellow to orange color.
What is carotene?
200
Flatly stacked cells on the surface of the skin prevents these things from entering.
What is microbes?
200
Overactive sebaceous glands can lead to this skin disorder.
What is acne?
200
These cells are brushed off every time you take a bath.
What are keratinocytes?
300
This tissue is involved in body movement.
What is muscle tissue?
300
This pigment produces the pinkish color seen on fair skinned individuals.
What is hemoglobin?
300
Maintaining homeostasis through thermoregulation is the function of these things?
What are sweat glands?
300
This secretions contains salts and toxins and helps the body to cool when temperatures increase.
What is sweat?
300
This layer contains hair follicles, sweat glands, nervous tissue and muscle tissue.
What is the dermis?
400
This tissue is specialized to send and receive signals to and from the brain.
What is nervous tissue?
400
This pigment carries oxygen. The absence of oxygen produces a bluish color in an individual.
What is hemoglobin?
400
When body temperature rises, this happens to the blood vessels.
What is they dilate, blood flow increases, and heat is lost as radiation?
400
These glands are attached to the hair follicles.
What is sebaceous glands?
400
Adipose tissue is found in this layer of the skin.
What is the subcutaneous layer?
500
These 3 things would happen if nerve tissue was missing from the skin.
What is it would not produce sweat, oil, or pain?
500
In vitiligo, the destruction of the cells that produce this pigment results in the individual having white patches on parts of his/her body.
What is melanin?
500
This protein contributes to the skin's waterproof quality?
What is keratin?
500
This accounts for older people forming wrinkles.
What is underactive sebaceous glands, lost of elastic fibers, and reduced thickness of the subcutaneous layer.
500
These 4 cells are found in the upper layer of the skin.
What are merkel cells, langerhan cells, keratinocytes, and melanoctyes?