DESCRIPTION: Covers body surfaces, lines hollow organs, cavities & ducts, forms gland. MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Protection, filtration, secretion, absorption, excretion
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Connective
DESCRIPTION: Cells in a matrix of fibres & ground substance. MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Protects and supports the body and its organs; binds organs together and stores energy as fat; provides the major transport system of the body.
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Muscle
DESCRIPTION: Contractile cells ( muscle fibres ). MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Generates physical force required to make body structures move.
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Nervous
DESCRIPTION: Nerve cells & supportive heuroglia. MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Detects change inside and outside the body and responds by generating nerve impulses.
TISSUE: Epithelial; connective; most muscle tissue. EXAMPLE: Bone; Blood
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Endoderm
TISSUE: Epithelial. EXAMPLE: Lining of gastrointestinal tract ( except oral cavity & anal canal) & epithelium of its associated glands
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Card 2
Front
DESCRIPTION: Cells in a matrix of fibres & ground substance. MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Protects and supports the body and its organs; binds organs together and stores energy as fat; provides the major transport system of the body.
Back
Connective
Card 3
Front
DESCRIPTION: Contractile cells ( muscle fibres ). MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Generates physical force required to make body structures move.
Back
Card 4
Front
DESCRIPTION: Nerve cells & supportive heuroglia. MAJOR FUNCTIONS: Detects change inside and outside the body and responds by generating nerve impulses.
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