Human Biology Midterm 2 : Tissues

What are tissues?
How many types of specialized cells are in the human body?

Four basic tissue types

Epithelial :
What does it do?
What does it consist of?
It is the only tissue exposed to what?

What is the function of epithelial tissue?

What are the 3 shapes or types of epithelial tissue?

What types of organization can there be with epithelial?

What is the extracellular matrix of epithelial tissue?

What type of junction within epithelial tissue? What are they made of?

What are squamous epithelial cells?
What do they do?
Where can you find them?
What organization can they be?

What are cuboidal epithelial cells?
What do they make up and what do they do?
Where can you find them?
WHat organization can they be?

What are columnar epithelial cells?
What do they do?
Where can you find them?
What are goblet cells?

What are the 6 types of connective tissue?

What does connective tissue do?
What does it allow?

What is Fascia?
What can manipulate it?

What are 5 other functions of connective tissue?

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All connective tissue is composed of 3 components…

What are the 3 kinds of fibres?

What is loose connective tissue also called?

What does loose connective tissue look like?

What do the spaces in loose connective tissue contain?

What is the most widespread connective tissue in body?

What does loose connective tissue connect?
Hold in place?
Acts as what for where?
Allows for what?
Forms what?

what can keep loose connective tissue from degrading and what can case it?

What is adipose tissue composed of?
What are its functions ? (2)
Is it mostly cells or matrix?

What is the cell type in adipose?
What is it specialized ?

What are the 2 forms of fat?

What is white fat?
What doe sit produce?
How much of a healthy person's weight is white fat?

Who has more brown fat?
What does it contain more so than white fat?
What does it generate?

What is visceral fat linked to?

What 2 things are made of fibrous connective tissue?

What does fibrous connective tissue have a lot of? A little of?

What type of cells does fibrous have?
What are fibres?
Is there much ground substance?

What are the 2 types of fibrous CT?

What does cartilage allow for ? (2)

What kind of cell does cartilage have?
What do they secret?
Where do they get trapped?

What's cartilage's fibre?

What is cartilage's ground substance?
WHat does this aid with?
Are there many blood vessels in cartilage and what does this inhibit?

What are the 3 types of cartilage
what do they consist of?
where can you find them?

What is bone used for?

What systems does bone form?

What are bone's cells?
Fibres?
Ground substance?

What does bone act as a reservoir for?
What can it produce?

What helps preserve bone mass and when does it naturally begin degrading?

What does blood transport?
What does it connect?

What are the 3 cells in blood?

What are blood's fibres?

What is blood's ground substance made of?

What does nervous tissue do?

True or False?
• Nerve cells can be a few microns or 2 metres long

What is a neuron? What are its 5 parts?

What is a neuroglia?
Is it common?

What are the 3 parts of neuroglia?

What is muscle tissue?

What are muscle's functions? (5)

What are muscles filled with to make them contract?

What are the 2 types of muscle systems?

What are the 3 types of muscle?
Which are voluntary and which are involuntary?

what are the muscle's cells called?

Is smooth muscle voluntary?
Is it striated?
How fast are the contractions and how long do they last?
What are the 2 layers?

What does cardiac muscle do? (2)

How does cardiac muscle show both characteristics of skeletal and smooth muscle?

What are intercalated disks for?
what does this allow?

What is striated muscle used for?
Where is it attached and how does it act there?

Why is it striated?

What does resistance training increase in terms of muscles?