$\text{Mucin} + \text{Water} \rightarrow \text{Mucus}$

Question 1

Which type of epithelial tissue is specialized for secretion and absorption in kidney tubules?

Accepted Answer

Simple cuboidal epithelium

Question 2

Simple columnar epithelium lining the digestive tract often contains which specialized structures to increase absorption?

Accepted Answer

Microvilli and goblet cells

Question 3

Which epithelial tissue type is found lining most of the respiratory tract and contains both cilia and goblet cells?

Accepted Answer

Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium

Question 4

Keratinized stratified squamous epithelium is primarily found in which location?

Accepted Answer

Covering the epidermis of the skin

Question 5

Which type of gland releases its product by exocytosis without losing any part of the cell?

Accepted Answer

Merocrine gland

Question 6

A multicellular exocrine gland consists of which two main structural components?

Accepted Answer

A duct and an acinus (secretory portion)

Question 7

Which type of epithelial tissue lines hollow urinary organs and is specialized to stretch?

Accepted Answer

Transitional epithelium

Question 8

Which of the following best describes the function of goblet cells?

Accepted Answer

Secretion of mucin to form mucus

Question 9

Which mode of secretion involves the entire cell rupturing to release its product?

Accepted Answer

Holocrine

Question 10

Which connective tissue type is characterized by a large amount of extracellular matrix and varying degrees of vascularity?

Accepted Answer

Connective tissue

Question 11

A gland that secretes its product into the blood or lymph rather than through a duct is classified as:

Accepted Answer

Endocrine

Question 12

Which of the following is a correct description of a simple gland?

Accepted Answer

Has an unbranched duct

Question 13

Which formula correctly represents the formation of mucus in goblet cells?

Accepted Answer

$	ext{Mucin} + 	ext{Water} ightarrow 	ext{Mucus}$

Question 14

Which type of glandular secretion involves the product accumulating just beneath the apex of the cell before release?

Accepted Answer

Apocrine

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a function of connective tissue?

Accepted Answer

Absorption

Question 16

Which type of stratified epithelium is rare and typically found in the ducts of some glands?

Accepted Answer

Stratified cuboidal epithelium

Question 17

Which connective tissue type has mesenchyme as its common embryonic origin?

Accepted Answer

Connective tissue

Question 18

Which of the following best describes a compound gland?

Accepted Answer

Has a branched duct system

Question 19

Which of the following is a correct example of a merocrine gland?

Accepted Answer

Sweat gland

Question 20

Which structural classification describes a gland with both tubular and alveolar secretory portions?

Accepted Answer

Tubuloalveolar

Epithelial and Connective Tissues: Structure, Function, and Classification

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