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Anatomy & Physiology Tissue Exam
Prep Questions
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1. What three characteristics are used to name an epithelial tissue?
2. Males have approximately ____% fat tissue
3. What cells form elastic cartilage?
4. What is the name of the nonliving cellular connective component?
5. Name the 4 categories of human tissue types.
6. What chemicals are secreted by mast cells?
7. If an epithelial tissue contains goblet cells, what would it be classified as?
8. Where in the body would you find fibrocartilage?
9. Describe 3 differences between epithelial and connective tissue?
10. Name a location where elastic cartilage is found.
11. What specialty feature does transitional epithelium contain?
12. Which muscle tissue(s) are voluntary?
13. What is the function of neural tissue?
14. What is the purpose of the basement membrane?
15. Why is brown fat found only in infants?
16. What is the function of cilia to a tissue? Name a type of tissue that
contains this structure.
17. Which tissue cell type contains striations?
18. What is the definition of a tissue?
classified as a tissue?
Why is skin NOT
19. Where in the body would you find simple cuboidal tissue?
20. What type of glands would hormones be classified as?
21. A person you know constantly loses and gains weight. Explain to this person why this
happens.
22. Why do adults have no need for brown fat?
23. What type of communication does epithelial tissue possess with the rest of the body?
24. Why is blood considered a tissue?
25. When viewing a slide, what characteristic helps to classify it as a connective tissue?
26. What does a tissue classified as pseudostratified mean?
27. What type of tissue lines body cavities?
28. Which type of tissue is slow to regenerate because of injury?
29. How does hyaline cartilage differ from elastic cartilage even though they are made
from the same cell type.
30. Which tissue type is responsible for contraction?
31. Which type of connective tissue does not stretch?
32. Why are the nuclei on adipose tissue off to the side?
33. Give two examples of exocrine glands?
34. What is produced from fibroblast cells?
35. Which connective tissue is the most rigid?
36. Why do the number of adipose cells not change over their lifetime?
37. Which cartilage type is the most common?
38. Why is the basement membrane important to epithelial cells?
39. If a stratified slide contains all three cell types, how do you name the tissue?
40. What is the purpose of a goblet cell?
41. Give two general functions for all connective tissue.
42. Give two general functions for all epithelial tissue.
Identify a body location for the following:
Simple squamous epi.
Adipose tissue
Smooth muscle
Endocrine gland
Simple columnar
Tendon
Skeletal muscle
Neuron
Collagen
Transitional
Pseudostratified
Hyaline cartilage
Cardiac tissue
Stratified squamous
Melanocytes
Simple cuboidal