• Question: do you have pictures of tissues ive never seen them before and this will be very fastinating

    Asked by twinpower to Zach on 13 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Zach Dixon

      Zach Dixon answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Hi!

      First of all here is some muscle tissue, as it looks down a microscope:

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      The dark spots are the nuclei of the cells, this is brain of the cell, it’s where the DNA is kept (the information telling the cell how to behave.

      Here is some skin tissue

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      It is different to muscle tissue as the cells aren’t long and thin and it doesn’t need to contract and relax in the same way

      And here is some nerve tissue

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      Notice how there is a large body to each cell with spindly arms coming out of it. These arms are how the cells communicate and pass messages around the body!

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