True or False: Simple squamous is a type of epithelial cell.
True
100
The nervous tissue that is found in the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves that conduct electrical signals.
What are neurons?
100
There are three types of muscle tissue, what are the names of these three.
What are skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle?
100
This is the connective tissue structure that supports the body, protects vital parts in cranial & thoracic cavities, serves as an attachment for muscles, and contains red marrow important for forming red blood cells.
What is bone?
100
Which of the following is not a type of connective tissue?
a. Adipose
b. Blood
c. Bone
d. Skin
What is skin?
200
Are epithelial cells typically closely or loosely packed?
What is closely packed?
200
Which of the following names the part of the neuron that contains the nucleus?
a. Cell body
b. Dendrite
c. Axon
d. None of the above
e. Nuclei are present in a,b and c
What is A - Cell body?
200
This type of muscle makes up the majority of the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
200
Mineral salts are found in this type of connective tissue.
What is bone?
200
This type of tissue is the most abundant major tissue in your body.
What is connective tissue?
300
This type of epithelial cells make up the lining of the kidney tubules, ducts of glands, and surface of ovaries?
What are simple cuboidal epithelial cells?
300
True or False: Nervous tissues perform functions of both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
True
300
This type of muscle is responsible for the involuntary movements of the body's internal organs.
What is smooth muscle?
300
The most common cells found in connective tissue.
What are fibroblasts?
300
What is wrong with the following statement:
Tissues are a group of cells working together to perform different functions.
It should read "Tissues are a group of cells working together to perform common functions."
400
Which of the following is the function of the epithelial tissue?
a. Supports body parts
b. Covers body parts
c. Binds body parts together
d. Forms the framework of organs
e. All of the above
What is b - covers body parts?
400
These are the two types of signals that the nervous tissue uses to communicate throughout the body. In class on Tuesday we discussed examples of both kinds, name an example of one of these types.
What are chemical and electrical signals. An example of a chemical signal is a hormone. An electrical signal is a nerve impulse sent from the brain.
400
Which type of muscle tissue has cells with many nuclei?
What is skeletal muscle?
400
This types of connective tissue connects bone to bone. For an extra 100 points also include an example found within the human body (hint: think about the knee).
What is a ligament? Examples could be ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL among others.
400
These two tissue types confer protection, although in different ways, for the human body.
Connective and Epithelial tissues
500
When talking about epithelial tissue ____________ refers to tissues that have many layers, where as ________________ refers to tissues that are just a single layer
What is stratified; simple.
500
What is the major difference between neurons and neuroglia cells?
Neurons are sensitive to stimuli while neuroglia cells are not.
500
This type of muscle is not visibly striated and has a centrally located nucleus.
What is smooth muscle?
500
This type of connective tissue is slow to repair because it is not near many blood vessels.
What is dense (fibrous) connective tissue?
500
Chemotherapy destroys cells in mitosis. Using what you know about mitosis and about the four types of tissue, what tissue type would be the most affected by chemotherapy?
a. Connective
b. Epithelial
c. Nervous
d. Muscle