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HISTOLOGY - LAB
YL 1 | AY 2021 – 2022 LE # 2

LE 2 SOURCES
I. Module 2.1 Epithelial Tissue [LAB]  Module 2.1, 2.1b, 2.2, 2.3a, 2.3b & 2.6 Histology Laboratory
II. Module 2.1b Epithelial Specialization and Glands Red Canvas Lecture/Page
[LAB]  Mescher, A. L. (2018). Junqueira's Basic Histology: Text and
III. Module 2.2 Connective Tissue [LAB] Atlas. McGraw-Hill Education.
IV. Module 2.3a Adipose Tissue [LAB]
V. Module 2.3b Cartilage Tissue [LAB]
VI. Module 2.6 Nervous Tissue [LAB]
DISCLAIMER: The contents of this samplex are not guaranteed to be on the examinations. Please use at your own discretion.
QUESTION ANSWER
1. Identify the yellow bracket A
a. Cuboidal epithelium
b. Pseudostratified epithelium
c. Squamous epithelium
d. Columnar epithelium

2. You are conducting an experiment involving gas exchange, to maximize the diffusion potential of a A
certain gas, which type of epithelium will you employ?
a. Simple squamous
b. Simple columnar
c. Stratified squamous
d. Simple cuboidal

3. What is the function of the structure in the yellow bracket? C

a. Pigmentation
b. Absorption
c. Protection
d. Secretion

4. Identify the lining epithelium A

a. Transitional
b. Non-keratinizing
squamous
c. Cuboidal
d. Umbrella

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5. Identify the lining epithelium B

a. Pseudostratified
b. Stratified squamous
non-keratinized
c. Transitional
d. Stratified squamous
keratinized

6. Identify the structure pointed by the black arrows? A

a. Basement membrane
b. Basal pole of connective tissue
c. Wondering cell
d. Apical pole

7. Identify the lining epithelium PSEUDOSTRATIFIED

COLUMNAR

8. Identify the probable organ of this specimen? B

a. Esophagus
b. Foot
c. Trachea
d. Ear

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9. Identify the lining epithelium B

a. Simple cuboidal
b. Simple squamous
c. Simple columnar
d. Transitional

10. Identify the apical structure (black bracket) C

a. Microvilli
b. Villi
c. Cilia
d. Stereocilia

11. Identify the staining technique used in this slide A

a. PAS
b. SEM
c. Giemsa
d. H&E

12. The blue bracket represents? B

a. Basement membrane
b. Epithelium
c. Connective tissue
d. Lumen

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13. Identify the staining technique used in this A

slide
a. Silver
b. H&E
c. H&M
d. PAS

14. Identify the cell UMBRELLA CELL

15. Identify the pointed structure B

a. Ventricle
b. Central canal
c. CSF
d. Spinal cord

16. Identify the connective tissue A

a. Areolar
b. Dense regular
c. Dense irregular
d. None of the choices

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17. What is the structural class of this neuron? D

a. Anaxonic
b. Multipolar
c. Unipolar
d. Bipolar

18. Identify the pointed structure B

a. Pia mater
b. Arachnoid villi
c. Sagittal sinus
d. Glandular neural tissue

19. Identify the type of connective tissue A

a. Dense regular
b. Dense irregular
c. Skeletal
d. Loose

20. Identify the apical structure A

a. Stereocilia
b. Villi
c. Cilia
d. Microvilli

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21. Identify the type of connective tissue A

a. Dense irregular
b. Areolar
c. Loose
d. Dense regular

22. Identify the cell with a “clock face” pattern C

a. Megakaryocyte
b. Mast
c. Plasma
d. Macrophage

23. Identify the cell D

a. Adipose
b. Alveolus
c. Signet ring
d. Adipocyte

24. Identify the origin of adipocytes B

a. Niche cell
b. Mesenchymal cell
c. Stem cell
d. Monocyte

25. Identify the structure C

a. Adipocytes
b. Loose connective tissue
c. Perichondrium
d. Fibrocartilage

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26. Identify the microscopy technique. D

a. H & E in gray print
b. EM
c. TEM
d. SEM

27. Identify the cell. D

a. lacuna
b. fibroblast
c. adipocyte
d. chondrocyte

28. Look at the specimen the butterfly shaped region A

here represents the?
a. Gray matter
b. White matter
c. Gray columns
d. Dorsal columns

29. identify the tissue D

a. blood with plasma
b. white
c. loose
d. brown

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30. Which part of the neuron is the principal signal D

reception and processing sites?
a. B
b. D
c. A
d. C

31. Unique to the CNS which appears with a large D

number of long radiating and branching processes.
This is what type glial cell?
a. Oligodendrocytes
b. Microglia
c. Satellite Cells
d. Astrocytes

32. A thin middle layer of very large neurons called Purkinje can C
be found in what organ?
a. Spinal Cord
b. Circumventricular Organ
c. Cerebellum
d. Cerebrum

33. Given the image is part of an axon, identify the pointed structure C
a. dendrite
b. myelin sheat
c. node of ranvier
d. nerve cell

34. what do you call a collection of nuclei outside the CNS? D

a. aggregates
b. marginalized
c. perikarya
d. ganglia

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35. Identify the cell D

a. PLASMA
b. Wandering lymphocyte
c. RBC
d. Ependymal cells

36. What is the other term of SCHWANN CELLS? NEUROLEMMOCYTE

37. Identify number 5 D

a. Perichondrium
b. keratin
c. cilia
d. mucus

38. identify the structure pointed by the yellow B

arrow
a. umbrella cell
b. serous demilune
c. goblet cell
d. serous acinus

39. identify number 1 A

a. Mast cell
b. Lymphocyte
c. plasma cell
d. fibroblast

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40. identify number 7 D

a. Wandering leukocytes
b. Loose connective tissue
c. Ground substance
d. Dense irregular connective tissue

41. The area indicated by the asterisk is typically C

composed of which of the following tissue
types?
a. loose connective tissue
b. Dense, regular connective tissue
c. Dense, irregular connective tissue
d. Glandular epithelium

42. identify number 2 A

a. Reticular fibers
b. adipocytes
c. displaced nucleus
d. axon

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43. identify number 3 D

a. Pyramidal layer
b. Purkinje layer
c. molecular layer
d. granular layer

44. What is number 2 here? RECALL INCLUSION

45. Which of the numbered lines points to the A

dorsal horn of gray matter?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 3
d. 5
e. 1

46. An obese, 18-year-old man (BMI = 32 kg/m2) presents with questions regarding his weight. The C
patient admits to an unusually strong appetite and uncontrolled food intake. His behavior may be
related to decreased serum concentration of which of the following hormones?
a. Somatomedin
b. Ghrelin
c. Leptin
d. Insulin

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47. identify the structural class D

a. tubular
b. Coiled tubular
c. brancched acinar
d. Acinar

48. Which of the lettered arrows on E

the photomicrograph identifies the
interterritorial matrix?
a. 5
b. 1
c. 4
d. 3
e. 2

49. which of the following types of A

connective tissue best describes
the cellular layer that lies below
the simple columnar, lining
epithelium?
a. Dense irregular connective
tissue
b. Elastic connective tissue
c. Reticular connective tissue
d. Adipose tissue
e. Loose connective tissue

50. The epithelium that lines these D

ducts (arrows, shown in the
image) exhibits which of the
following patterns of morphology?
a. Stratified columnar
b. Simple cuboidal
c. Pseudostratified cuboidal
d. Simple columnar

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