Cells & Tissues

Define tissue with regards to anatomy

• Multiple sheets of thin paper used to clean your nose

• The smallest structural and functional unit of an organism

• A series of different cells in the same area

• A group of structurally and functionally related cells that come together to perform common functions

What is the function of epithelial cells?

• Act as barriers between the external environment, or between organs and fluidfilled cavities
• Provide movement by pulling on bones
• Provide secretions which help to digest food
• Act as the messaging pathway between different areas of the body

What is the general structure of cuboidal cells?

• Square with large central nucleus
• Flat, 'fried egg' appearance
• Rectangular with nucleus towards basal end
• Dead apical cells filled with keratin

The stomach consists of what type of muscle?

• Smooth muscle
• Skeletal muscle
• Cardiac muscle
• Deoxygenated muscle

What type of muscle tissue is VOLUNTARILY controlled

• Skeletal Only
• Skeletal and Cardiac
• Smooth and Cardiac
• Cardiac Only

The common term for adipose tissue is

• Fat
• Blood
• Bone
• Cartilage

What are the four main tissues found in the body?

• Epithelial, Connective, Bone, Blood
• Muscle, Connective, Blood, Epithelial
• Nervous, Muscle, Connective, Epithelial
• Nervous, Muscle, Connective, Bone

Skeletal cells are voluntary cells. There are:

• Striated

• Unstriated

• Uninucleate

• Multinucleate

• a and d both

Which muscles act involuntarily?

(i) Striated

(ii) Smooth

(iii) Cardiac

(iv) Skeletal

• (i) and (ii)

• (ii) and (iii)

• (iii) and (iv)

• (i) and (iv)

Cells of squamous epithelium are-

• columnar

• tall with elongated nuclei

• flat plate like

• cube like