KIN 2500 Chapter : Chapter Three Tissues Flowchart

Build a dichotomous key to all the tissues you have seen in the lab. For this, you can use any of their morphological characteristics (under the microscope) but not their physiological functions.

Tissues seen in this lab:

1) Epithelia: simple squamous, simple cuboidal, simple columnar, pseudostratified columnar, stratified squamous, stratified cuboidal and columnar, transitional, and specialized epithelia (goblet cells).

2) Connective Tissue: Adipose, Areolar, Cartilage, hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, elastic cartilage, bone and blood.

3) Muscle: Smooth muscles, Cardiac muscles, skeletal muscle

4) Nervous tissues: Neurons, central nervous system (CNS), satellite cells, schwann cells, ependymal cell