Tissues

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 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

Connective tissue fibers include

• proteoglycans, adhesion proteins and interstitial
• collagen, and elastic
• osteoblasts, fibroblasts and hemoblasts

Most connective tissue is well vascularized. What does that mean?

• Poor blood supply
• Good blood supply

This tissue carries nutrients, waste, respiratory gases, and many other substances throughout the body.

• Bone
• Cartilage
• Blood
• Adipose

This type of muscle tissue is found only in the heart

• Skeletal
• Cardiac
• Smooth

This type of muscle tissue is attached to bones wand helps control voluntary movement

• Skeletal
• Cardiac
• Smooth

Cells make up.....

• Tissues
• Organs
• Organ systems
• more cells