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Animal Tissues
Part A
Term | Definition |
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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 |