Types of Tissues

Question 1

Epithelial Tissues

Answer 1

Function: Covering or lining tissue.
Cell Characteristics: Very closely joined together, vary in shape from thin and flat to column shaped, depending on the particular tissue.
Examples of where found: Covers organs such as heart, kidneys, intestines. Lines inside of organs such as stomach, heart and hollow organs.

Question 2

Connective Tissues

Answer 2

Provide support for the body and help hold all body parts together.

Cell Characteristics: Cells separated from each other by large amounts of materials not made of cells.

Where found in body: Bone, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, fat storage.

Question 3

Smooth Muscle

Answer 3

Smooth Muscle: Involuntary, push thing along body organs. Spindle shaped, found in walls of stomach, intestines, walls of blood vessels, and Iris.

Question 4

Skeletal Muscle

Answer 4

Voluntary, attached to bones for movement.

Cell Characteristics:
- Contains many bundles of regularly arranged filaments, called myofibrils.

Found in tongue, diaphragm, eye socket, upper oesophagus.

Question 5

Cardiac Muscle

Answer 5

Involuntary, striated muscle with inter calculated discs connecting cells for synchronised contractions during heart beat.

Cell Characteristics: Cells connected by intercalated discs.

Found in thick middle layer of heart.

Question 6

Nervous Tissue

Answer 6

Conducts impulses to and from body organs via neurons.

Cells: Neurons

Found in brain, spinal cord, nerves.