Animal Tissues
Delgado, James Bryan G.
BioSci 1-B │ Bio 1133
Type Function Characteristics Structure Location
● Facilitates diffusion of gases ● Blood and lymphatic
and small molecules. ● Fast cell reproduction. ● Cells are large, thin, and flat vessels, air sacs of
Simple ● Secretes lubricating ● Damaged easily and contain a rounded nucleus. lungs, lining of the
substances heart.
Squamou
● In areas that undergo
s ● Composed of many
● Cells are flattened, joined tightly wear-and-tear; skin,
layers; only one layer is
Stratified ● Protection against abrasions. together and stacked in many respiratory, digestive,
in contact with the
layers. excretory, and
basement membrane.
reproductive systems.
● Can withstand trauma ● In ducts and secretory
● Facilitates in absorption and ● Cells are cuboidal in shape,
Simple ● Has a broad secretory portions of small glands
secretion of substances and contain a rounded nucleus.
Epithelial and absorptive property and in kidney tubules.
● Functions as a protective
Cuboidal ● Barrier acts like a filter,
epithelial tissue. ● Consists of cube shaped cells ● Found in sweat glands,
forcing nutrients and
Stratified ● Creates an impermeable bound together by various salivary glands, and
water to pass through
barrier between two distinct membrane junctions. mammary glands.
the cells
surfaces in the body.
● Cilia in the tissues aid
in the movement of ● Cells are taller and less wide,
● Absorbs and secretes placed side by side and the ● Tissues with cilia;
mucus and
Columnar Simple mucous and other enzymes nucleus is situated near the bronchi, uterine tubes,
reproductive cells.
base. and uterus.
● Microvilli in intestinal
tracts provide large
Animal Tissues
surface areas for ● Tissues without cilia;
maximum absorption. digestive tract and
bladder.
● Found in parts of the
● Arranged in layers, where the pharynx, anus, the
● Cells function in secretion and
Stratified ● Rare type of tissue topmost layer is made up on uterus, and the male
protection.
columnar epithelial cells. urethra and vas
deferens.
● Walls of the internal
● Involuntary muscle
organs, such as the
● Manages peristalsis, blood
tissues that are stomach, intestine,
● Elongated, spindle-shaped
Unstriated pressure, pupil size. arranged in layers. bladder, and blood
fiber with single nucleus.
● Smooth muscle vessels, excluding the
tissues. heart.
● Appears transversely
● Allows that generation of
striped, with alternating
Muscular force and contract in order to ● Fibers are cylindrical and ● Spanning joints of
Striated dark and light bands.
support respiration, multinucleated. skeleton via tendons.
● Skeletal muscle
locomotion, and posture.
tissues.
● Performs coordinated ● Heart muscle tissues. ● Branched, striated fiber with
● Found in the walls of
Cardiac contractions that allow the ● Only found in the heart. single nucleus and intercalated
the heart.
heart to pump blood. ● Very vital. discs
● Mostly made up of ● Made up of strong, densely
● Joins bones together ● Ligaments, tendons,
Dense collagen, a protein that packed collaged fibers that are
● Resists stretching. and aponeurosis.
Connectiv provides flexibility. arranged parallel to each other.
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● Allows water, salts, and ● Collagenous fibers and elastin
● Contains fibroblasts or ● Deep into the skin;
various nutrients to diffuse are loose, meaning they are not
Areolar cells that synthesize around muscles, blood
through to adjacent or arranged and are far from each
the matrix. vessels and organs.
imbedded cell tissues. other.
Loose
● Cell are bulky, capable of ● Found beneath the
● Provides insulation against ● Cells are called
Adipose storing lipids, that nuclei are skin, around kidneys,
body heat loss. adipocytes.
pushed to the sides. heart, and eyes.
● Compact bone tissues
are found on the shaft
● Makes and stores the bone ● Hardest tissue in the
● Has a honeycomb-like matrix of a long bone and
marrow. body, calcified.
Bone internally, which helps to give surfaces of flat bones.
● Provides internal support ● Lightweight, yet strong.
the bone rigidity. ● Spongy bone tissues
● Protects vital organs
are found in the end of
a long bone.
● Found in many areas of
Skeletal ● Composed of chondrocytes that
the body including:
produce a large amount of
● Covers and protects the ends ● Resilient and smooth Joints between bones
collagenous extracellular
of long bones at the joints, the elastic tissue. e.g. the elbows, knees
matrix, abundant ground
Cartilage rib cage, the ear, the nose, ● Can withstand and ankles. Ends of the
substance that is rich in
the bronchial tubes, the stretchability and ribs. Between the
proteoglycan and elastin fibers.
intervertebral discs. tension. vertebrae in the spine.
● Does not contain blood vessels
● Found in ears and
or nerves.
nose.
● Found in blood vessels
● Transports oxygen to the ● Fluid, no fiber, but a lot ● Composts of erythrocytes, (arteries, arterioles,
Fluid Blood different parts of the body. of protein and cells. leukocytes, and platelets. capillaries, venules and
veins), basically it is
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found in every part of
your body.
● Found in the
● Helps in fighting infections in ● Fluid, leukocytes are ● Consists of mostly plasma and intracellular fluids that
Lymph the body. dominant. various types of leukocytes. are spread throughout
the body.
● Consists of a nerve cell body
and several processes:
● Receive stimuli and send the ● Nerve cells live long,
dendrites, which carry impulses
Neurons impulses to the spinal cord cannot be divided and
toward the nerve cell body, and
and brain. replaced. ● Found in the central
axons, which carry impulses
Nervous away from the cell body. nervous system; spinal
cord, brain, nerves.
● Smaller than neurons
● Supports and protects the and are about three ● Do not have axons, dendrites,
Neuroglia neurons. times more numerous or conduct nerve impulses.
in the nervous system.
