Describe the main structural characteristics of the four basic tissues.

(a) Epithelial tissue:
(b) Connective tissue:
(a) Muscle tissue:
(b) Nervous tissue:


(a) Epithelial tissue: covers surfaces, lines tubular organs, lines blood vessels, and forms basement membranes
(b) Connective tissue: fibers and ground substance make up an extensive extracellular matrix
(a) Muscle tissue: fibers shorten during contraction, transverse striations in skeletal and cardiac
(b) Nervous tissue: neurons and neuroglia

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