Zoology · Ch 3 — Tissue Level of Organisation
Animal Tissues
Animal Tissues
Animal tissues are classified according to the size, shape and function of their cells. There are four primary (basic) tissue types that interweave to form the 'fabric' of the body: epithelial tissue (covering), connective tissue (support), muscle tissue (movement) and nervous tissue (control). Every organ in the body is some combination of these four building blo …
What this figure shows. A two-part diagram: (left) a branching classification chart sorting animal tissues into the four primary types — Epithelial, Connective, Muscular and Neural — with Epithelial further split into Simple (squamous, cuboidal, columnar, ciliated, pseudostratified) and Compound (transitional; stratified squamous/cuboidal/columnar, each further keratinised/non-keratinised) forms; (right) a human silhouette with leader lines marking where each primary tissue is represented in the body — epithelial tissue, connective tissue, skeletal muscl …