It's tissue which lies underneath the epithelial tissue, connecting different parts of the internal structure
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What is Matrix?
Matrix can be liquid, jelly, hard or in cartilage. It carries various different cells, inc blood cells around the body.
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What is Plasma?
Plasma is a yellow like liquid, Plasma carries water, salts and enzymes. Plasma helps take nutrients, hormones, and proteins to the parts of the body that need it.
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What is the role of plasma?
blood clotting, transport, defence over invading organisms
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What is arterial blood?
Flows away from the heart and is bright red as it is oxygenated
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What is venous blood?
flows towards the heart, usually dark red as it is deoxygenated
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What is another name for White blood cells?
Lymphocytes
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What is the role of cartlidge?
protect the bone of friction during movement
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What are the 2 main components of bone?
Calcium Salts- they form around collagen fibres and give bone its hardness
Collagen Fibres- offer ability to bend under strain and prevent bones from being to brittle and likely to fracture
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What is another name for bone cells?
Osteocytes
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What is Areolar tissue?
sticky, white material which binds muscle groups, blood vessels and nerves together.
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What is Collagen?
Structural protein in the form of fibres for extra strength
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What is Adipose tissue?
Fatty tissue
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What are the 3 types of muscle?
- striated
- non striated
- cardiac
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What is striated muscle?
-it is attached to the bones
- contracts when it receives nerve impulses from the CNS
- voluntary movement
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What is non- striated muscle?
- Smooth, thin muscle
- It isn't controlled voluntarily. An example of a non- striated muscle is the bladder, stomach, uterus.
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What is Cardiac Muscle?
- a type of muscle which is only found in the four chambers of the heart
-contacts without any stimuli
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What is nervous tissue?
- only found in the nervous system
- receives stimuli from internal and external sources, then it co-ordinates communication in different parts of the body.
- the process of maintaining a constant internal environment despite changing circumstances.
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Card 2
Front
Matrix can be liquid, jelly, hard or in cartilage. It carries various different cells, inc blood cells around the body.
Back
What is Matrix?
Card 3
Front
Plasma is a yellow like liquid, Plasma carries water, salts and enzymes. Plasma helps take nutrients, hormones, and proteins to the parts of the body that need it.
Back
Card 4
Front
blood clotting, transport, defence over invading organisms
Back
Card 5
Front
Flows away from the heart and is bright red as it is oxygenated
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