study guide exam 2

==Four basic types of tissues==: Epithelial, Connective, Muscle, Nervous

==Epithelial tissue==

• lines many body cavities and covers the body
• can be classified by #’s cell layers and shape of these cells
• do not have any blood vessels
• classified by shape of cells: squamous, cuboidal, columnar, transitional
• simple squamous: single layer of scale like cells
• Stratified squamous epithelium: serval layers of closely packed cells