
Episode 25: Organs, Tissues and Systems
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Special Connective Tissues
There's two very broad categories of connective tissues, they're the more generic ones that just support the stomach or provide the support underneath the skin and so on. Now I want to focus more on special connective tissues because there's two types: cartilage and bone. Cartilage is a flexible connective tissue found in areas of humans and also other animals that need strength but also need some degree of flexibility. The next specialized connective tissue I want to talk about is bone. We definitely don't think about bone as being a tissue but it is. So when people think about bones they often think about them as sort of just being lumps of perhaps you think calcium or just mineral which
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