Chapter 5: McGraw Practice

Question 1

Epithelial membranes are composed of what two tissue types?

Answer 1

Epithelium & underlying connective tissue

Question 2

True or False: All tissue types are tightly packed, built of cells attached by intercellular junctions.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or False: The vocal cords move constantly during sound production, requiring them to be resilient and to be able to stretch and move without losing their shape. Knowing this, the vocal cords must be rich in elastin.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or False: Histology is the study of the history of anatomy and physiology.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

A single layer of flattened cells forms a tissue called ___ epithelium.

Answer 5

Simple Squamous

Question 6

The skin is composed of an outer layer of epithelial tissue, the epidermis, and an inner layer of connective tissue, the dermis. Between the deepest layer of the epidermis and the top layer of the dermis lies an anchor membrane. What is the membrane called?

Answer 6

Basement Membrane

Question 7

What can you found in Areolar Tissue?

Answer 7

Collagenous Fibers, Elastic Fibers, and Gel-like ground substance

Question 8

What are the functions of neuroglia?

Answer 8

They support/bind nervous tissue, provide nutrients, and growth factors to neurons by connecting them to blood vessels

Question 9

True or False: Researchers bred a generation of rats that were sterile. When investigating the cause for this change, they noticed that the tissue lining the uterine tubes were missing their cilia which would function to guide the egg into the uterus. The abnormal tissue was simple squamous epithelium.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The lining of the nasal cavity is a ___ membrane.

Answer 10

Mucous Membrane

Question 11

What type of muscle tissue is in the walls of blood vessels?

Answer 11

Smooth Muscle Tissue

Question 12

Embryonic stem cells growing in a lab dish are bathed in a “cocktail” of chemicals that cause them to specialize into branching networks of single-nucleated cells that pulsate in unison. These cells are most likely part of what types of tissue?

Answer 12

Cardiac Muscle

Question 13

Tendons and Ligaments are composed primarily of what type of tissue?

Answer 13

Dense Regular Connective Tissue

Question 14

True or False: White blood cells may become macrophages.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or False: Osteocytes release Histamine and Heparin.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The pyloric glands of the stomach release hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices during digestion. These glands have very short ducts and the tubes are branched. What kind of glands are pyloric glands?

Answer 16

Simple Branched Tubular Glands

Question 17

The primary characteristic of muscle tissue is their ability to ___.

Answer 17

Contract

Question 18

The greater omentum is a structure that exists in the abdomen and hangs over the digestive tract, behind the abdominal muscles. A cross section viewed under a microscope reveals that it contains a connective tissue composed of large cells, or droplets. The cell membranes are very thin and there is no collagen. The tissue looks like it might be good for cushioning. What type of connective tissue is this?

Answer 18

Adipose Tissue

Question 19

Where can cardiac muscle be found?

Answer 19

Wall of the heart

Question 20

Striations, but not intercalated discs, are seen in ___ muscle tissue.

Answer 20

Skeletal Muscle Tissue

Question 21

Which of the following is a general characteristic of connective tissue?

Answer 21

It consists of cells within extracellular material

Question 22

Cells that support neurons are called ___.

Answer 22

Neuroglia

Question 23

True or False: Sickle cell disease involves a mutation that causes red blood cells to become crescent-shaped in low-oxygen conditions. They then become lodged in capillaries. This disease directly affects a connective tissue.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Cartilage cells occupy small chambers called ___.

Answer 24

Lacunae

Question 25

True or False: The parotid gland produces a serous fluid (saliva) and dumps it into the nearby oral cavity. This makes the parotid gland an exocrine gland.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Which of the following best describes a characteristic of nervous tissue?

Answer 26

Some of its cells send electrochemical messages

Question 27

Cells within a tissue are joined together by ___.

Answer 27

Not cell junctions

Question 28

The part of the neuron that transmits electrical impulses to other neurons, glands, and muscle cells is the ___.

Answer 28

Axon

Question 29

A nerve and blood vessels are sometimes bundled together by a connective tissue that is cobweb-like in appearance. What type of connective tissue serves this function?

Answer 29

Areolar Tissue

Question 30

What composes the extracellular matrix?

Answer 30

Ground Substance & Protein Fibers

Question 31

True or False: A synovial membrane is composed entirely of connective tissue.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

How do merocrine, apocrine, and holocrine secretions differ?

Answer 32

Not in the locations of the glands that produce them Could be in the amount of cytoplasm, in the amount of glycoprotein or in the number of cells

Question 33

Which of the following organs contains smooth muscle in the wall?

Answer 33

Liver

Question 34

Cells of skeletal muscle tissue are called ___.

Answer 34

Myocytes

Question 35

True or False: Muscle tissue conducts electrical impulses from one neuron to another to coordinate body activities.

Answer 35

False

Question 36

True or False: A particular tissue functions to direct the flow of a substance to an organ without losing any of the substance or letting any other substances come in contact wiht it. Tight junctions are most likely to be found between the cells of this tissue type.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

What do intercellular junctions connect?

Answer 37

Cell Membranes

Question 38

The inner lining of most organs in the digestive system is composed of ___ epithelium.

Answer 38

Simple Columnar Epithelium

Question 39

True or False: A skeletal muscle fiber contains many nuclei.

Answer 39

True

Question 40

The pituitary gland is a structure in the brain that secretes hormones into the bloodstream. What epithelium is part of this structure and produces the secretion?

Answer 40

Glandular Epithelium

Question 41

True or False: Cardiac muscle can function without nervous stimulation but skeletal muscle cannot.

Answer 41

True

Question 42

The inner lining of the abdominal cavity is a ___ membrane.

Answer 42

Serous Membrane

Question 43

The epidermis (outer layer of the skin) needs to be tough and resistant to shearing and stretching. What type of intercellular junction is best suited for this need?

Answer 43

Desmosome

Question 44

The iris of the eye constricts to change the diameter of the pupil, controlling the amount of light allowed to enter the eye. What type of muscle tissue forms the iris?

Answer 44

Smooth Muscle Tissue

Question 45

What type of muscle cell(s) have more than one nucleus?

Answer 45

Skeletal muscle cells only

Question 46

What type of membrane lines tubes and cavities that open to the outside of the body?

Answer 46

Mucous Membrane

Question 47

"Cutaneous membrane" refers to ___.

Answer 47

Skin

Question 48

The most abundant cells in dense connective tissue are ___.

Answer 48

Fibroblasts

Question 49

The cells that function to transport oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body are ___ cells

Answer 49

Red Blood Cells

Question 50

What type of epithelium lines the urinary bladder and many of the urinary passageways?

Answer 50

Transitional Epithelium

Question 51

True or False: Blood isn’t classified as a connective tissue because it circulates around the body and is never in a fixed location.

Answer 51

False

Question 52

True or False: A mucus-secreting goblet cell is a unicellular gland.

Answer 52

True

Question 53

The smooth muscle cells of the digestive tract need to send electrical signals between each other to contract in unison. What type of intercellular junction is best suited for this need?

Answer 53

A Gap Junction

Question 54

The study of tissues is called ___.

Answer 54

Histology

Question 55

A researcher develops a genetically modified organism that is paralyzed because none of the motor neurons that stimulate muscles can receive signals from other neurons in the spinal cord. What is wrong with these motor neurons?

Answer 55

The motor neurons lack dendrites

Question 56

What type of gland branches repeatedly before reaching the glandular cells or secretory part?

Answer 56

Compound

Question 57

What type of tissue lines the follicles of the thyroid gland?

Answer 57

not

Question 58

Which of the following are functions of epithelial tissue?

Answer 58

Secretion, absorption, and protection

Question 59

True or False: Bone cells (osteocytes) are in concentric circles around central canals.

Answer 59

True

Question 60

True or False: Blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets suspended in a fluid extracellular matrix called plasma.

Answer 60

True

Question 61

Why are cartilage tissues likely to be slow in healing following an injury?

Answer 61

Chondrocytes do not have a direct blood supply

Question 62

Sebaceous glands secrete a substance called sebum which coats the skin and protects it from water. This secretion forms as the cells lining the ducts of the glands rupture and release their contents, along with the disintegrated cells. Based on this description, sebaceous glands are ___ glands.

Answer 62

Holocrine Glands

Question 63

What are the 4 types of tissue?

Answer 63

Muscle, Epithelium, Connective, Nervous