tissues practice Flashcards
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Which category of tissue is characterized by cells that have adhesion proteins and specialized cell-to-cell junctions?
epithelial
Which one of the following basic types of tissues functions as a covering tissue for the body?
epithelial
Using your knowledge of tissues of the body, which type of tissue do you deduce is located on the anterior surface of a person’s eyeball?
epithelial
Of the following, the tissue with the greatest capacity for regeneration is
Epithelium
Which of the following is not a characteristic of epithelia?
Vascular
Cancer occurs when cells multiply excessively, forming malignant neoplasms. Which characteristic of epithelium makes it the most common type of tissue involved in cancer?
high regenerative capacity
Cells lining the digestive tube are characteristic of this tissue category.
epithelial
Pseudostratified columnar is one of the tissues of this category.
epithelial
Which major tissue category includes tissues that function in secretion, absorption, and filtration?
epithelial
The thinnest type of epithelium is
simple squamous.
Simple squamous epithelia would not provide
protection from abrasion.
Which of the following provides the least resistance to diffusion?
simple squamous.epithelium
The major function of pseudostratified columnar epithelium is
secretion
An epithelium in which the basal layer of cells is cuboidal and the apical layer has cells that are thin, flat and irregular in shape is a ________ epithelium.
stratified squamous
The major function of stratified squamous epithelium is
protection from abrasion.
A stratified epithelium that thins and flattens as the tissue stretches is a
transitional epithelium.
When unstretched, transitional epithelium looks most like ________ epithelium.
stratified cuboidal
A structure that secretes hormones into the blood is
an endocrine gland.
A common example of a unicellular exocrine gland is
a goblet cell.
What do goblet cells secrete?
mucin
A highly branched gland whose walls do not balloon into spherical sacs is called
compound tubular.
All of the following are true regarding multicellular exocrine glands except
Alveolar glands have secretory cells that form tubes.
The distinguishing characteristic between tight junctions and adherens junctions is that
adherens junctions attach to the actin myofilaments of the cytoskeleton, whereas tight junctions do not.
The type of cell junction that closes off the space between epithelial cells, thereby limiting the passage of small molecules, is the
tight junction.