How many main tissue types are found in the human
body?
A. 1
D. 4
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
Avascularity is a characteristic of which tissue type?
A. Muscle tissue
B. Connective tissue D. Epithelial tissue
C. Cardiac tissue
D. Epithelial tissue
Which type of tissue rests on an underlying basement
membrane?
A. Cardiac tissue
C. Epithelial tissue
B. Muscle tissue
C. Epithelial tissue
D. Connective tissue
Regeneration is a characteristic of what type of tissue?
A. Skeletal muscle
B. Connective tissue D. Epithelial tissue
C. Cardiac muscle
D. Epithelial tissue
Which muscle tissue is striated and voluntary?
A. Cardiac muscle
B. Connective tissue C. Skeletal muscle
C. Skeletal muscle
D. Smooth muscle
Gap junctions are unique to .
A. skeletal muscle C. cardiac muscle
B. epithelial tissue
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C. cardiac muscle
D. smooth muscle
Which cells serve an immunological defense function?
A. Adipocytes
B. Melanocytes C. Macrophages
C. Macrophages
D. Microcells
Which represents specialized nerve cells that generate
and conduct nerve impulses?
A. Glial
C. Neuron
B. Elastic
C. Neuron
D. Muscle
Which are known functions of glia cells? Select all that
apply.
A. Protect neurons. A. Protect neurons.
B. Send electrical impulses. D. Act as housekeeping for the nervous system.
C. Processes sensory information. E. Provide nourishment for neurons.
D. Act as housekeeping for the nervous system.
E. Provide nourishment for neurons.
The three types of muscle are
.
A. skeletal, reticular, and elastic
C. skeletal, cardiac, and smooth
B. skeletal, smooth, and elastic
C. skeletal, cardiac, and smooth
D. skeletal, cardiac, and transitional
Which of the following is false, with respect to muscle
tissue?
E. Muscle serves as a calcium reservoir.
A. Muscle specializes in contraction.
B. Muscle helps control body temperature.
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C. Muscle is one of the four classes of tissue types.
D. Muscle contraction can cause movement.
E. Muscle serves as a calcium reservoir.
The three types of protein fibers that are found in connec-
tive tissue are .
A. collagen, elastic, and reticular
B. blood, lymph, and interstitial fluid A. collagen, elastic, and reticular
C. loose, dense, and irregular
D. tendons, ligaments, and elastic ligaments
E. cartilage, bone, and collagen
Pseudostratified columnar epithelium's primary function
is .
A. absorption
B. secretion
B. secretion
C. filtration
D. protection
Which is not a function of simple squamous epithelium?
A. Filtration
B. Protection from abrasion B. Protection from abrasion
C. Dittusion
D. Secretion
An epithelium in which the basal layer of cells is
cuboidal and the apical layer has cells that are thin
and flat with a fried-egg appearance in shape is a
epithelium
C. stratified squamous
A. stratified cuboidal
B. simple columnar
C. stratified squamous
D. Simple cuboidal