Lesson 1.2 Identity: Tissues - Key Terms

Question 1

Connective tissue in which fat is stored and which has the cells distended by droplets of fat

Answer 1

Adipose tissue

Question 2

Bones of the limbs and limb girdles that are attached to the axial skeleton

Answer 2

Appendicular Skeleton

Question 3

Animal tissue that functions mainly to bind and support other tissues, having a sparse population of cells scattered through an extracellular matrix

Answer 3

Connective Tissue

Question 4

Sheets of tightly packed cells that line organs and body cavities

Answer 4

Epithelial Tissue

Question 5

The branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law

Answer 5

Forensic Anthropology

Question 6

The longest bone of the upper arm or forelimb extending from the shoulder to the elbow

Answer 6

Humerus

Question 7

The inner and usually larger of the two bones of the leg between the knee and ankle that articulates above with the femur and below with the talus – called also shinbone

Answer 7

Tibia