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Characteristics:
* Come in a variety of shapes and sizes
* Have an indoor and outdoor complex structure.
* Light weight yet strong and hard
* Multiple Service Functions

Function:
* Support and protect various devices
* Production of red and white blood cells
* Store minerals
* Enable mobility

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Function/Characteristic:

engulf foreign particles and any cell debris by phagocytosis.

involved in immune system.

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Function/Characteristic:
secrete fiber proteins of extracellular matrix.

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Function/Characteristic: are very thin and brunched. Composed of collagen and continuous with collagenous fibres, they form a tightly woven fabric that joins connective tissue to adjacent tissues.

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Function/Characteristic: easily stretch but are also resilient, snapping back to their original length when tension is released. Shaped as long threads, elastic fibres are made of a protein called elastic.

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Function/Characteristic: provide strength combined with flexibility. They are made of collagen, probably the most abundant protein in the animal kingdom. Collagenous fibres are nonelastic and do not tear easily when pulled lengthwise.

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Characteristics:
Blood is composed of blood cells and cell fragments in blood plasma

Function:
*Bodily fluid in humans and other animals
_nutrients
_oxygen to the cells _transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells

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Characteristics:
*chondrocytes : produce a large amount of collagenous extracellular matrix
*abundant ground substance that is rich in proteoglycan and elastin fibers.

Function:
*Flexible connective tissue in animals
W H Y  ?
Because of its rigidity, cartilage often serves the purpose of holding tubes open in an animal's body.

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Characteristics:
* Fat cells (Adipocyte)
* Lipid droplets

Function:
* stores fat for energy metabolism
* insulates the body against heat loss
* lines the organs and body cavities to protect organs

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Characteristics:
* Collagenous fibres
* Fibroblasts
* pattern can be regular or irregular with the strands lined up in parallel depending on the location

Function:
Found in-
1)Tendons, which attach muscle to bones
2) Ligaments, which connect bones to joints

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Characteristics:

* Elastic fibres

* Collagenous fibres
* Fibroblasts

Function:
* Binds epithelia to underlying tissues --> hold organs in place.
* Found around every blood vessel

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Which are made of protein

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1. hold or support tissues and organs in place.

2. consist of population cells scattered through an (extracellular matrix)

consists of web of fibers embedded in liquid, jellylike or solid foundation.

within matrix, there are numerous cells , called fibroblasts and macrophages.

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Haneen, Suga, Zaherh & Myint