Chapter 4 Tissue

Question 1

True or False? Smooth muscle is striated and voluntary.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Releases the cell’s content by the burst of the plasma membrane, for example, sebaceous glands

Answer 2

Holocrine secretions

Question 3

Product is released from secretory vesicles by exocytosis, for example, the sweat gland into the hair follicles.

Answer 3

Apocrine secretion

Question 4

Involves the loss of a portion of the cytoplasm of the cell.

Answer 4

Merocrine secretions

Question 5

Involved in the building and secretions of cerebrospinal fluid in brain and spinal cord

Answer 5

Ependymal cells

Question 6

Surround sensory, sympathetic, and parasympathetic ganglia in the peripheral nervous system (similar to astrocytes in the brain and spinal cord)

Answer 6

Satellite cells

Question 7

Specialized macrophages capable of phagocytosis in brain and spinal cord

Answer 7

Microglia

Question 8

Involved in the production of myelin sheets with in the central nervous system

Answer 8

Oligodendrocyte

Question 9

Pass information from one area to another through electrical and chemical signals

Answer 9

Neurons

Question 10

Regulate ion concentration and help in neuronal regulation of blood flow within the central nervous system

Answer 10

Astrocyte

Question 11

Involved in the production of myelin sheets within the peripheral nervous system

Answer 11

Schwann cells