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Animal Tissues
Cells that are alike in size and shape team up. They work together to do special jobs.
These cell teams are called tissues. Thus, cells combine to form tissues.
A group of cells that work together to do the same job is called a tissue.

Tissues in animals:
There are mainly four types of animal tissues:
1. Epithelial tissues
2. Muscle tissues
3. Connective tissues
4. Nervous tissues

Epithelial tissue
Epithelial tissue is a protective tissue. It forms a
continuous outer layer all over the body as a part
of the skin.
It also forms a lining of all organs such as the
stomach, oesophagus (food pipe), mouth, intestine,
and trachea (wind pipe).
Functions of Epithelial tissue:
o It is a protective tissue. It protects the
underlying parts of the body from injury and
entry of germs.
o Epithelial cells lining the stomach wall secrete juices. These juices help in
digestion.
o Epithelial cells of the skin help in the removal of waste as sweat.
o Epithelial cells also help in absorption of digested food.
There are four types of epithelial tissues. They are simple cuboidal, simple squamous,
simple columnar and stratified squamous.

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Muscular tissue:
Muscular tissue is found in every part of the body where movement in involved.
Based on structure and function, there are three types of muscle tissues skeletal,
cardiac and smooth muscles.
Differences between three muscle tissues:

Feature Skeletal Cardiac Smooth

Shape Elongated, Elongated, Elongated,
cylindrical with cylindrical, spindle shaped-
blunt ends. branched, fused shaped with
with one another. pointed ends.
Location Attached to the Wall of heart Wall of stomach,
skeleton intestine etc.

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Nervous tissue
Nervous tissue consists of a group of specialized cells called nerve cells or neurons.
Nerve cells are joined from end to end, forming long nerve fibers.

Connective tissue
Connective tissue is composed of cells, which
are embedded in a non-living medium or
fluid. Connective tissue is present
throughout the body.
Bone, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments are
all examples of connective tissue.
Tissues combine to form organs. An organ is
made of different kinds of tissues.

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