Question: All of the following functions are associated with epithelial tissue except:-generating electrical signals.-transporting substances to other tissues.-mechanical and thermal protection.-secretion of substances.

Answer: Generating electrical substances

Question: Glands that accumulate secretions and release them when the cell membranes ruptures, causing cell death, exhibit:

Answer: holocrine secretion

Question: If a tissue is composed of many fine collagen fibers that are not visible with a light microscope, has no other type of fiber, and has chondrocytes within lacunae, then the tissue is:

Answer: hyaline cartilage

Question: Stratified squamous epithelium would not be found in the:

Answer: intestines

Question: All of the following characteristics are associated with epithelium except: -it has many tight junctions.-it is highly regenerative.-it may form exocrine glands-it contains blood vessels.

Answer: it contains blood vessels

Question: Simple squamous epithelium is found lining the __________.

Answer: air sacs of lungs

Question: both elastic and some collagen

Answer: What fibers are common in this tissue?

Question: Hyaline cartilage is not found in _______

Answer: the menisci of the knee

Question: Fibrocartilage is found:

Answer: between adjacent vertebrae (intervertebral discs).

Question: Which of the following types of tissue is found in the lymph nodes, spleen, and liver?

Answer: Reticular connective tissue

Question: Which of the following functional characteristics is associated with simple squamous epithelium?

Answer: Filtration and diffusion

Question: The inorganic portion of bone matrix is composed of

Answer: calcium phosphate crystals.

Question: Reticular tissue is not found in which of the following locations?

Answer: Tendons

Question: ____ are the most common unicellular exocrine gland found within mucous membranes.

Answer: Goblet cells

Question: You examine a tissue slide through the microscope and recognize one layer of cells that are mostly tall and elongated. This tissue is most likely to be __________.

Answer: simple columnar epithelium

Question: The internal space within any hollow structure (the stomach, an artery, a tubule, etc.) is known as the:

Answer: lumen.

Question: Which of the following characteristics is not associated with cardiac muscle?-Striations-Uninucleate-Intercalated discs-Voluntary control

Answer: voluntary control

Question: Smooth muscle tissue is found in

Answer: the walls of the intestines.

Question: Which of the following characteristics do skeletal and cardiac muscle cells share in common?

Answer: Striations

Question: ___ are the supporting cells found in nervous tissue.

Answer: Neuroglial cells

Question: The ___ will carry a nerve impulse away from the cell body, whereas the ____ will carry a nerve impulse toward the cell body.

Answer: axon; dendrite

Question: Cells that generate, conduct, and receive electrical messages are __________.

Answer: nuerons

Question: ___ consists of long, cylindrical, striated fibers with multiple nuclei located at the periphery of the fiber.

Answer: Skeletal muscle

Question: Which of the following structures is more complex than a tissue?

Answer: organ

Question: What part of a neuron conducts electrical signals away from the cell body?

Answer: axon

Question: Striated, multinucleate cells are commonly found in __________.

Answer: skeletal muscle tissue

Question: Which part(s) of a neuron extend from the cell body and have a primary function to receive messages from the axons of other neurons?

Answer: Dendrites

Question: Organs are made up of several different types of ____ that function together.

Answer: tissues

Question: Scar tissue is formed from

Answer: dense irregular connective tissue.

Question: Tissue that only heals by fibrosis would be _______________.

Answer: cardiac muscle tissue

Question: A tissue that is able to be completely restored following damage or death exhibit ____.

Answer: regeneration

Question: All of the following types of membranes are lined with a layer of epithelial cells except-mucous membranes.-synovial membranes.-serous membranes.-cutaneous membranes.

Answer: synovial membranes.

Question: What type of membrane lines cavities that open to the outside of the body?

Answer: Mucous membrane

Question: The ability of a tissue to heal is influenced by all of the following factors except-nutrition.-blood supply.-mitotic ability.-age.

Answer: age

Question: All of the following types of tissue will go through regeneration except-epithelium.-smooth muscle.-bone.-cartilage.

Answer: cartilage.

Question: What lubricates movable joints such as the hip, knee, and elbow?

Answer: Synovial fluid

Question: Which of the following membranes makes up the largest organ in the body?

Answer: Cutaneous membrane

Question: Which of the following characteristics is not true of mucous membranes?

Answer: They line the ventral body cavity

Question: Membranes that anchor organs in place, serve as barriers, function in immunity, and secrete various substances are considered ______.

Answer: true membranes

Question: The parietal pleura is a serous membrane ____________________.

Answer: lining the thoracic cavity

Question: The permanent replacement of normal tissue by scar tissue is called __________.

Answer: fibrorsis