HISTOLOGY EXAMS SET FEATURING
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND ACCURACY
CHECKED ANSWERS
●● Connective Tissue
Answer: Tissue that fills spaces, stores/transports, provides structure,
binds things together.
Found: cartilage, ligament, bones, blood adipose, tendons, joint capsules
●● Muscle Tissue
Answer: Contracts or Shortens with force and is responsible for
movement.
3 Types:
Skeletal Muscle: voluntary/striated
Cardiac Muscle: involuntary / striated w/intercalated discs
Smooth Muscle: involuntary/ no striation
●● Neural Tissue
Answer: Conduct electrical signals called action potentials
●● Simple
Answer: Single layer of cells
, ●● Stratified
Answer: Two or more layers of cells
●● Pseudostratified Epithelium
Answer: columnar epithelium, varies in height with nuclei at different
levels above basal membrane
●● Squamous
Answer: Scale-like
●● Cuboidal
Answer: Cube-like
●● Columnar
Answer: Column-shaped
●● Transitional Epithelium
Answer: Peculiar stratified squamous epithelium formed of rounded
cells with the ability to slide over one another to allow the organ to be
stretched.
●● Adipose
SOLVED QUESTIONS AND ACCURACY
CHECKED ANSWERS
●● Connective Tissue
Answer: Tissue that fills spaces, stores/transports, provides structure,
binds things together.
Found: cartilage, ligament, bones, blood adipose, tendons, joint capsules
●● Muscle Tissue
Answer: Contracts or Shortens with force and is responsible for
movement.
3 Types:
Skeletal Muscle: voluntary/striated
Cardiac Muscle: involuntary / striated w/intercalated discs
Smooth Muscle: involuntary/ no striation
●● Neural Tissue
Answer: Conduct electrical signals called action potentials
●● Simple
Answer: Single layer of cells
, ●● Stratified
Answer: Two or more layers of cells
●● Pseudostratified Epithelium
Answer: columnar epithelium, varies in height with nuclei at different
levels above basal membrane
●● Squamous
Answer: Scale-like
●● Cuboidal
Answer: Cube-like
●● Columnar
Answer: Column-shaped
●● Transitional Epithelium
Answer: Peculiar stratified squamous epithelium formed of rounded
cells with the ability to slide over one another to allow the organ to be
stretched.
●● Adipose