Exam 6: Classification of Tissues

This connective tissue is made of hard calcified matrix and stores calcium and other minerals.

This tissue type is a covering and lining tissue. It also includes glands.

Epithelial cells are specialized to .

This epithelial tissue has many cell layers. It forms the outer layer of the skin.

Two of the four primary tissue types contain excitable cells, cells that receive stimuli and generate electrical signals. One of these is muscle tissue. Name the other.

Cardiac muscle is found in the .

This type of connective tissue is primarily composed of cells.

This type of connective tissue is found under epithelia, packaging organs, and surrounding capillaries.

muscle cells consist of branched uninucleate cells with junctions called intercalated discs.

Simple epithelia have .

Select the tissue that is a simple epithelium.

This connective tissue consists of large round densely packed cells with the nucleus pushed to one side.

Epithelial tissues are found _ .

Which muscle tissue type is controlled voluntarily?

Squamous epithelial cells _ .

This is the toughest kind of cartilage. It is found in places that receive a lot of mechanical stress.

What is not true of epithelial cells?

This connective tissue looks like strands of wavy hair. It is very strong and attaches muscles to bones.

This tissue can look like the hexagonal tiles of a bathroom floor. It also forms the air sacs of the lungs.

The support cells found in nervous tissue are called .