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What makes cartilage an “unusual” connective tissue? Obj 4.13

Dr. Reuseur started to examine his patient by feeling her pulse, and lymph nodes.   Dr. Reuseur was using: Obj 1.1

The fine, short, and lightly colored hair that covers most of the body after birth for protecting the skin and regulating body temperature are:  Obj 5.10

For a male post-puberty, the majority of vellus hairs on his body have transitioned to:  Obj 5.10

A person in the anatomical position is visualized to be:  Obj 1.1

What are the structural characteristics that allow you to visually distinguish among skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle tissue? Obj 4.14   1) both skeletal muscle tissue and cardiac muscle tissue are striated. 2) look for intercalated discs and branched cells in the cardiac muscle cells. 3) skeletal muscle cells are multinucleate while cardiac muscle cells are uninucleate. 4) cells in smooth muscle tissue lack striations. 5) smooth muscle tissue cells branch and possess intercalated discs.

Which of the following best summarizes the principle of complementarity of structure and function? Obj 1.8

The most superficial component of the skin is the:  Obj 5.1

This occurs when a substance enters a cell by crossing the plasma membrane, diffusing across cytosol, and exiting the cell through the plasma membrane at the opposite side: Obj 4.8

Tissues that are “bulbous” at the apical surface and flatten and stretch as the organ fills like the urinary bladder are classified as:   Obj 4.5