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Animal Tissues
Part A
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Regeneration | the ability to regrow a severed body part |
| Stem Cells | cells becoming a specific type of cell |
| Adult Stem Cell | unspecialized cells that can become any type of normal cell |
| Unipotent | stem cells from a certain organs that has the ability to become one type of specialized cell |
| Totipotent | stem cells from an embryo that has the ability to become any specialized cell |
| Pluripotent | stem cells from a blacoyst that has the ability to become the most specialized cells |
| Skin Epithelia | flat cells that act as a semi-permeable inside and outside of body |
| Columnar Epithelia | column cells that aligns stomach and glands which have cilia which secretes mucus or even absorbs the materials |
| Smooth Muscle | muscle that is in the heart that causes it to pump ; involuntary muscle |
| Cardiac Muscle | muscle that is in the heart that causes it to pump ; involuntary muscle |
| White Blood Cells | fight viruses and infections |
| Placelets | helps in blood clotting |
| Nervous Tissue | responds to stimuli ; 5 senses transmits messages to and from the brain |
| Skeletal Muscle | muscle attached to bone that has voluntary movement |
| Tendons | |
| Red Blood Cells | delivers oxygen from lungs to body |
| Embryonic Cells | found in a fertilizing egg in process of embryo |