BIOL 1030 Mastering Biology Chapter 40

_____ muscle is attached to bones.

Skeletal

The type of muscle tissue surrounding internal organs, other than the heart, is ___.

smooth muscle

_____ is the connective tissue specialized for transport.

Blood

How does connective tissue differ from the other three major tissue types?

Connective tissue often consists of relatively few cells embedded in an extracellular matrix.

What describes loose connective tissue?

It is a loose weave of fibers that functions as a packing material.

Cartilage is found _____.

at the ends of bones such as the femur

An example of a connective tissue is the ___.

blood

Cardiac muscle is the only muscle composed of _____ fibers.

branched

In a typical nerve cell, the nucleus is found in the ___.

cell body

The body tissue that consists largely of material located outside of cells is ___.

connective tissue

With its abundance of collagenous fibers, cartilage is an example of ___.

connective tissue

A neuron consists of _____.

dendrites, a cell body, and axons

Most of the exchange surfaces of multicellular animals are lined with ___.

epithelial tissue

Blood is best classified as connective tissue because ___.

its cells are separated from each other by an extracellular matrix.

The four major categories of tissues are _____.

nervous, epithelial, connective, and muscle

Connective tissues typically have ___.

relatively few cells and a large amount of extracellular matrix

What type of epithelial tissue, found in the intestines, absorbs nutrients?

simple columnar epithelium

What type of epithelial tissue lines kidney tubules?

simple cuboidal cells

What tissues, found in the lungs, permits gas exchange by diffusion?

simple squamous epithelium

Food moves along the digestive tract as the result of contractions by ___.

smooth muscle

What type of muscle is responsible for contractions of the digestive tract and arteries?

smooth muscle

What type of epithelium would you expect to find covering a surface subject to physical forces?

stratified epithelium

All skeletal muscle fibers are ___.

striated and under voluntary control.

Nervous tissue functions _____.

to sense stimuli