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Saturday, April 9, 2011

What is cell and tissue?

Answer: 
Cell:
    The cells come from the Latin word “cella” which means a chamber. The living matters are composed of so many structural units or chambers.

Or,
Cell is a microscopic unit of living matter, which is a mass of protoplasm containing a nucleus or nuclear material.

Or
Cell is fundamental structure and functional unit of biological structure and physical of unit of life.

Tissue:
       It comes from latin word “texera” which means to weave.

A tissue is a collection of similar type of cell and associated intracellular substance that specialized in a common direction and performing a definite function.

Example:  
  • Muscular tissue
  • Nervous tissue
  • Epithelial tissue
  • Connective tissue

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