Animal Tissue

Epithelial Tissue

Muscle Tissue

Connective Tissue

Nervous Tissue

Thin, protective continuous sheet of cells. Flat, cuboidal or columnar in shape and fit tightly together

Covers the space of the body and various body cavities & internal organs & blood vessels

Protection,absorbtion,sensory perception and secretion

Squamous epithelium

Cuboidal epithelium

Columnar epithelium

Vertically arranged cylindrical or brick-like cells & tall

inner lining of stomach & intestines

Some parts of kidney tubules & glandular ducts

Thin, flat with prominent nuclei closely packed

Lining the mouth and nasal cavities, blood vessels and lymph vessels

Protects the underlying parts from mechanical injury, germs, harmful chemicals and drying up

Stratified epithelium

Found in the skin and the cornea

Composed of several layers of epithelial cells

Ciliated columnar epithelial

Glandular epithelium

contains large cells & is folded inward to form a compact, hollow or tubular glands

Secretes chemical substances

lining of the stomach & intestine

lining of the trachea

Have thread-like protoplasmic projections called cilia at their free ends

Binds one tissue with another & connects various organs

Abundance of intercellular space

Fewer cellular elements & fibres

Connective tissue proper

Supportive connective tissue

Fluid connective tissue

Serves for packing & binding the organs

Areolar (packing) tissue

Adipose (fat) tissue

Fibrous connective tissue

Made of elongated cells which are strong and bundled together by the tissue; it forms a tendon which connects muscle to bone

They connect bone to bone, muscle to bone and ligaments and hold them in position

Widely spread

Makes the skin elastic which helps it to withstand pulling strain

Beneath the epidermis of skin

Specialized cells

Store Fat

Forms padding under the skin and around kidneys etc.

Cartilage

Bone

Hard porous tissue & consists of both living cells & rigid mass of inorganic salts

Good supply of blood vessels & nerves

Non porous tissue & thickened intercellular substance and has no blood vessels/nerves & semi-transplant and elastic

Found in tip of the nose, external ears, trachea and bronchial tubes, between vertebrae & at the ends of long bones

Blood

Lymph

Made of Liquid part-plasma & Cellular part - red blood cells, white blood cells & platelets

Contains white blood cells

fluid surrounding the body cells

Comes out of blood vessels

forms the muscles of the body & can contract and relax

Help the body in its movements

Striated

Unstraited

Heart/Cardiac

skeletal, striped or voluntary muscles

Made of long fibres which are nucleated & striated - light and dark bands run across the fibres

Found in arms, legs, face, neck

Constitute about 50% of the body weight

smooth,unstripped or involuntary

Made up of spindle-shaped tapering cells which have one nucleus

Found in the walls of intestine, muscles of the urinary bladder etc.

Involuntary

Help in the passage of food

found in the walls of the heart

Striated, uninucleated, relatively short & branched

Contract without outside stimulation and dont get tired soon

constitutes the nervous system

made up of elongated cells called neurons

consists of a cell body called Cyton

Contains the nucleus & elongated hair like extensions called dendrites

Axons

Very long (1m - 3m)

Form a nerve

Perception & responses of animals