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  1. Glossary
  2. /Biology
  3. /Tissue

What is Tissue?

In short

A tissue is a group of similar cells that work together to do one job. Tissues join to form organs, and organs join to form organ systems.

In simple words

Animals have four main kinds of tissue. Epithelial tissue covers surfaces and lines organs. Connective tissue joins and supports, and includes bone, cartilage, fat and blood. Muscle tissue contracts to cause movement. Nervous tissue carries messages. Plants have meristematic tissue, which divides, and permanent tissue, which does not, including xylem and phloem.

Example

The stomach has muscle tissue to churn food, epithelial tissue lining it, connective tissue holding it together and nervous tissue controlling it. Together these make one organ.

Also searched as: tissue epithelial, muscle and nervous tissues.

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Related terms

  • Cell
  • Epithelial Tissue

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  1. Plant TissuesClass 9 to 10
  2. Animal TissuesClass 9 to 10
  3. Root, Stem and LeafClass 11 to 12
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  1. A storm tears open an old neem tree. Its centre is a hollow, but the tree has green…Hard
  2. A stump shows 24 annual rings. Its radius is 168 mm, and the bark is left out…
Medium
  • Meena looks at a polished slice of a trunk…Easy
  • A periderm has 12 rows of cork, 1 row of cork cambium and 3 rows of phelloderm…Medium
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    1. A leaf has 62 stomata in every square millimetre of its lower surface. How many stomata…Medium
    2. On a dry day the blade of a grass leaf rolls inwards and loses less water. Which cells…Hard
    3. A stem section shows vascular bundles scattered all through the ground tissue. Each…Medium

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