Biology 121 study concepts for Chapter 4 material
1. What is tissue?
2. What is epithelium?
3. What are the overall characteristics that epithelial tissues have in common?
4. How is epithelial tissue classified by shape and layering?
5. Know the appearance, location, and function of the simple epithelia: simple squamous, simple
cuboidal, simple columnar, and pseudostratified columnar epithelia.
6. Know the appearance, location, and function of the stratified epithelia: stratified squamous, stratified
cuboidal, stratified columnar, and transitional epithelium.
7. Know the meaning of the following as they apply to epithelial tissue: basement membrane, goblet
cells, endothelium.
8. What is the difference between endocrine glands and exocrine glands?
9. What are the types of exocrine glands (unicellular, simple multicellular, compound multicellular)?
10. What is connective tissue?
11. What are the overall characteristics that connective tissues have in common?
12. What are the following as they apply to the extracellular matrix of connective tissues: ground
substance, collagen fibers, elastic fibers, reticular fibers?
13. What are the following cells as they apply to connective tissue, and what type of tissue do they
make: fibroblasts, chondroblasts, osteoblasts, hemocytoblasts, macrophages.
14. Know the appearance, location, and function of the connective tissue proper: areolar tissue, adipose
tissue, reticular tissue, dense regular tissue, dense irregular tissue, elastic tissue.
15. Know the appearance, location, and function of the cartilages: hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage,
elastic cartilage.
16. Know the appearance, location, and function of the following: compact bone, cancellous bone,
blood, skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, neurons.