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Microviewer Lab – Animal Tissues (Set 51)
(Adapted from http://www.sciencescion.info/Cellular/CellularBiology.htm / . . . Microviewer Lab--Animal Tissues)
Slide 1 – Voluntary Muscle Cells (900X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. How much of your body is made of voluntary muscle?
c. Why are they called “voluntary” muscles?
d. How long are muscles cells?
e. Why are voluntary muscles called striated muscles?
Slide 2 – Involuntary (smooth) Muscles Cells (900X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. How are voluntary muscles different from involuntary muscles?
c. Why are involuntary muscles also called smooth muscles?
d. Name three places smooth muscles are found:
Slide 3 – Heart (cardiac) Muscles (340X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. Do your heart muscles ever stop working as long as you are alive?
Why?
c. Look at slides two and three and name at least one difference between
cardiac and smooth (involuntary) muscle.
d. Also, name one difference between cardiac and voluntary muscle.
Slide 4 – Areolar Connective Tissue (350X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. What does areolar connective tissue do?
Revised April, 2012
Slide 5 – Bone (150X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. How are the bone cells connected to each other?
c. What is the function of the bone cells?
d. What do the nerve and blood vessels bring to the bone cells?
Slide 6 – Blood (480X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. What type of tissue is blood?
c. Describe the shape of the red blood cell
d. What do red blood cells do?
e. Where are red blood cells made?
f. Does the human body have more white blood cells or more red blood
cells?
How do you know?
g. What do white blood cells do?
Slide 7—Adipose Tissue (150X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. What is another name for adipose tissue?
c. Write down one interesting fact from this section of reading.
Slide 8 – Spinal Cord (75X)
a. Sketch what you see.
b. What is another name for a nerve cell?
c. What three parts of the body are made of nerve tissues?
e. What are the red streaks?
f. Use your textbook to find a make a VERY simple sketch of a nerve
cell below.
Revised April, 2012