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Location: Ducts and secretory portions of small glands, ovary surface.
Function: Secretion and absorption
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Type of Connective Tissue.
Location: Under skin in subcutaeous tissues, around kidney's, eyeballs, breast, and abs
Function: Provides food fuel, insulates, protects and supports organs.
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Location: Forms the moist lining esophagus, mouth, vagina, epidermis of skin.
Functions: Protects underlying tisues in areas of abrasion
hint: look at the shapes of the cells |
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Location: male sperm carrying ducts, duct of large glands, trachea, upper respitory.
Function: Propel sheets of dust-trapping mucus away from lungs |
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Location: Digestive Tract (main), gallbladder, extretory ducts, small bronchi, uterine tubes, uterus.
Functions: Absorption, secretion of mucus, enzymes, other substances.
Goblet Cell- secretes mucus |
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Location: widely distributed under epithelia of body, surrounds capillaries, packages organs.
Function: Wraps amd cushions organs, holds tissue fluid
Consists of several types of fibers: collagen, elastic, reticular. Most Prevelent cell: Fibroblast |
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Location: Embryonic skeleton, ends of long bones, cartiledge of ribs, nose, trachae, larynx
Function: Supports and reinforces, resilient cushion, resists stress.
Chondrocyte Cells located in cavities called lacunae in jelly-like ground substance chondroitin sulfate. |
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Location: Tendons, most ligaments, aponeuroses
Function: Attaches muscle to bone, bone to bone, withstands great stress.
Matrix composed of collagenous fibers in bundles, fibroblasts in rows between bunbles. |
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Regular cell activity. S-phase = DNA replication |
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Chromosomes condense and become visible |
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Two centrioles at opposite ends, Chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell |
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Centromeres split, kinetecore pulls chromosomes to separate sides. |
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Centromeres split, kinetecore pulls chromosomes to separate sides. |
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Chromosome begin to uncoil, new nuclear envelope forms |
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Contracting ring of actin forms cleavage furrow and pinches cells apart |
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Which cells constantly undergo mitosis? |
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Somatic cells (body cells) |
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Function is to aid in movement. Goblet cells are present as well. Location: tissue in air passageways |
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Also known as a erythrocyte. Function: transportation of nutrients, waste, and other substances Makes up most of the area, small, "hole" in center. Surrounded by plasma |
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Also known as a leukocyte. Large, but less numerous. Function: prevent blood clotting. Has a visible nucleus. |
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Forms boundaries between different environments, protects, secretes, absorbs, filters. Located: lining of digestive tract, organs, other hollow organs, skin surface (epidermis) |
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Function: Supports, protects, binds other tissues together. Location: bones, tendons, fat and other soft padding tissue |
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