“Tissues, Part 4 – Types of Connective Tissues: Crash Course A&P #5”: 1. You can eat tissue raw. What does need cooking, though, is the tissue in order to break it down so that we can chew it.

2. The most diverse type of connective tissue is your connective tissue . It has two categories: loose and dense. The subclasses are based on how many fibers it has in its .

3. Loose connective tissue have fibers, and cells, and ground substance.

4. Areolar tissue is the most common loose connective tissue in your body. Under a microscope, its most obvious feature is that it looks like it has a lot of in it.

5. Your tissue is your fat tissue.

6. Your reticular tissue is what holds your in place in many of your organs.

7. Dense, regular tissue is full of fibers, making it hard to break apart.

8. If the collagen fibers aren’t all stacked together neatly, you have dense tissue.

9. Dense tissue are found in areas where you need support and flexibility.

10. Hyaline cartilage connects your ribs to your and can be found on the tip of your nose.

11. Elastic cartilage is found where flexibility is needed, like your .

12. Fibro cartilage acts like a shock absorber and can be found in your vertebrae or joints.

13. Bone is just connective tissue.

14. In the case of blood, the ground substance is your blood , which has protein fibers floating around it.

15. Most of your blood cells are RED WHITE blood cells. The rest of your blood is made of leukocytes and platelets.