Animal tissue

• Epithelial tissue


  Covers and lines body surfaces and cavities. Epithelial tissues are able to protect and form different body structures.
• Epithelial tissue cell types

  • Squamous
  • Cuboidal
  • Columnar
• Connective tissue


  Serves various functions such as protection, storage, support, binding, and synthesis of blood cells.
• Connective tissue cell types

  • Connective Tissue Proper
  • Loose and Dense
  • Cartilage
  • Bone
  • Adipose
  • Blood cells
• Muscle tissue


  Functions for the movement and contraction of various parts of the organisms.
• Muscle tissue cell types

  • Skeletal
  • Smooth
  • Cardiac
• Nervous tissue


  Controls responses of the organism to different stimuli.
• Nervous tissue cell type

  • Neurons
• Neuron

  • Dendrite
  • Nucleus
  • Axon
  • Axon terminal
  • Node of Ranvier
  • Schwann cell sheath
  • Myelin