What is histology? - Correct Answer -The study of tissues
What is a tissue? - Correct Answer -A group of cells that act together to perform a specific
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What are the fundamental tissues? - Correct Answer -Epithelial
Connective
Muscle
Nerve
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What is the function of epithelial cells? - Correct Answer -Cover, line, and protect the body and the internal organs.
What is the function of connective tissue? - Correct Answer -Framework of the body. Provides support and structure to organs.
What is neuroglia? - Correct Answer -The neurons and connective tissue cells that compose nerve tissue.
What ability does muscle tissue have? - Correct Answer -Ability to contract and shorten.
What is muscle tissue classified as? - Correct Answer -Voluntary(skeletal muscles) and involuntary(smooth & cardiac)
What is meiosis? - Correct Answer -The cell division that takes place in the gonads, i.e. the ovaries and testes.
What two layers compose the skin? - Correct Answer -Epidermis and dermis.
What is the epidermis? - Correct Answer -The outermost protective layer of dead keratinized epithelial cells.
What is the dermis? - Correct Answer -The underlying layer of connective tissue with blood vessels, nerve endings, and the associated skin tissues.
What are the layers of the epidermis? - Correct Answer -Corneum
Lucidum
Granulosum
Germivatum ( basale & spinosum)
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What does the protein pigment melanin protect against? - Correct Answer -Radiation from the Sun
What is the dermis composed of? - Correct Answer -Fibrous connective tissue with nerve endings, blood vessels, sensory nerve endings, hair follicles, and glands.
What are the 2 types of sweat glands? - Correct Answer -ecrine & apocrine
What do ecrine sweat glands produce? - Correct Answer -Sweat. Regulate body temperature.
What do apocrine sweat glands produce? - Correct Answer -Secretions contain bits of cytoplasm from cells, attracting bacteria that produces body odor.
What do sebaceous glands secrete? - Correct Answer -They secrete sebum through the hair follicles, which lubricates the skin and prevents drying.
What secretion produces oil? - Correct Answer -Holocrine secretion.
What are sebaceous glands prone to during adolescence? - Correct Answer -Becoming clogged and attracting bacteria.
What protein composes the hair and skin? - Correct Answer -Keratin
What makes the body's framework? - Correct Answer -Bone, cartilage, ligaments & joints.
What are the functions of the skeletal system? - Correct Answer -Support, movement, blood cell formation, protection of internal organs, detoxification, muscle attachment, mineral storage. *A MIME BATHED SEALS SINGING "MY PONY"*
How are bones classified? - Correct Answer -By shape.
Long
Short
flat
irregular
sesamoid
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What is the name for the cells that compose compact bone? - Correct Answer -Osteoblasts
What occurs to osteoblasts when they become fixed in the dense bone matrix? - Correct Answer -They stop dividing but continue to maintain body tissues as osteocytes [Show Less]