Connective tissue attaches muscle to bone joins bones together cushions the body and stores energy lines the inside of hollow organs covers the outside of an organism hold organs and other tissue in place

hormones in blood stream

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endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.