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What are the basic types of tissue?
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Epithelial, Connective, Muscular and Nervous
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There are four types
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What is the function of Epithelial Tissue?
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Protection, Absorbtion, Secretion and Reception of stimuli
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What is the function of connective tissue?
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Supports and connects other tissues, holds body together
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What is the function of muscular tissue?
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Movement of bones, rythmic contraction, movement of internal organs
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Whats the function of the nervous tissue?
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Transmission of nerve impulses
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What is a tissue?
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A similar group of cells that work together to carry out a particular activity.
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What is nervous reflex?
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some presense of nerves in the lungs
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What is alveoli?
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Air sacs that probide a large surface area for the exchange of respiratory gases by diffusion between the alveoli and the blood capillaries.
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What is the purpose of the respiratory membrane?
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Gases move freely across here and it contains elastic connective tissue that gives the alveoli their ability to expand and recoil
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Identify the general region where the exchange of gases takes place?
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in the alveolus, where there is a respiratory membrane across which gases move freely into the blood capillaries
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