Tissue Lab Relate and Review

The tissue lab was all about exploring different types of cells and tissues through microscopes. After spending a few days learning about histology, it was great to see what we learned about in real life (aside from the skin we see everyday). Using optical microscopes, we took a look at all four types of tissues. They really reflected what we learned what we learned about in class, especially for the slide labeled "nerve human c.s. and l.s" and "skeletal muscle." For the nervous tissue one, the axons were clearly seen in the picture, and the fibers were also very visible. It was easy to tell that it was a nervous cell because only those have axons to receive and send signals. Additionally, the skeletal muscle slide had dots that stuck out from the picture which can be easily identified as nuclei. It also had the striations which made it very obvious that it was a skeletal muscle. Every slide that we looked at was different than the others just because of how specific the shapes were to their specific tissue type. The axons were an excellent example, because they have a specific function, and they could be identified in the lenses to indicate that what we were looking at was a nervous tissue cell. The skeletal muscle was also good because of the striations that were evident, and could be related to the voluntary movements that we can control.