Ch. 4 - Tissues: The Living Fabric

(T/F) All muscle cells contain striations.

False

Which of the following describes a holocrine gland?

Holocrine glands secrete their products by rupturing.

Which of the following characteristics is lacking in the typical areolar connective tissue pictured in the figure?

None of these characteristics is lacking.

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

The cutaneous membrane is made of a simple columnar epithelium

Which tissues have little to no functional regenerative capacity?

cardiac muscle and nervous tissue in the brain and spinal cord

What tissue type has polarity and is avascular?

epithelium

Which property is most consistent in the majority of connective tissues?

greater amount of extracellular matrix compared to cellular content

An exocrine gland that has an unbranched duct would be classified as a __________.

multicellular simple gland

In connective tissue, the role of elastic fibers is to __________.

provide flexibility

Under a microscope you observe a tissue that appears to have long fibers that appear striated. The nuclei are pushed off to the side of the fibers. The tissue looks very vascular. What type of tissue are you observing?

skeletal muscle tissue

Injured cartilage might heal more quickly if a treatment were discovered that would __________.

stimulate blood vessels to develop within cartilage

What distinguishes the gland in A from the gland in B?

the method of secretion