Everything Life Sciences Grade 10

Epithelial tissue type Diagram Microscopic image Cuboidal Epithelial tissue type Location in body Structure Function Columnar Di ...

Muscle tissue DUMMY Muscletissue There are three types of muscle tissue: Skeletal Smooth Cardiac Skeletal and cardiac muscle a ...

Smooth muscleis an involuntary, non-striated muscle with tapered ends. It is found within the walls of blood vessels such as ar ...

Sensory neuron Motor neuron Interneuron Sensory neurons are responsible for transmitting various external stimuli from the envir ...

Connective tissue type Structure Function Location Diagram/Photo Areolar (loose connective) jelly matrix; has network of elastic ...

Electron micrographs of blood cells Figure 5.29: Scanning elec- tron microscope image of cir- culating blood showing sev- eral r ...

FACT The number of leukocytes is often a measure of disease. They make up approximately 1% of blood in a healthy adult. A change ...

scalpel blade dissecting tray petri dish chicken wing 1 ml Ether cloths roller towel Method: Skin Before you begin, look at t ...

Muscle This is the pinky-orange tissue you can see under the skin. The muscles were most likely severed when the chicken was d ...

Tendons are made of a type of connective tissue that contains lots of white fibres made of collagen. It is this collagen that gi ...

What type of cartilage is this? Try to remove it from the bone. Then try to scratch it first with your nail and, then with somet ...

FACT In 2007, a research team from University of KwaZulu-Natal found that plant extracts from 16 plants used by local healers as ...

Figure 5.34: Eosinophils are important in controlling the allergic reaction. Vaccination is the most effective method of eradica ...

Blood transfusions often save the lives of people whom have lost large amounts of blood due to trauma caused by accidents and su ...

Gene cloning: involves cloning of small sections or regions of DNA. Reproductive cloning: produces copies of whole animals or c ...

Figure 5.39: The cloning processes for reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Reproductive cloning is used for cloning of whole o ...

FACT Recall that in Chapter 4 you learnt that individuals with cancer can be treated through chemotherapy. However, chemotherapy ...

surgery. Potential applications of cloned animals Reproductive cloning may allow copies of animals to be made for benefits in ag ...

Epidermis DUMMY Epidermal cells form the outer layer covering a leaf, separating internal organs from the external atmosphere. E ...

FACT You will learn more about the transport processes in plants in:Support and transport systems in plants. Figure 5.42: Leaf s ...