Assignment: Tissue Drawings
The intention of this assignment is to help you learn to distinguish/identify tissues. Your finished work should
convince me that you could do so.
When assignments are completed as instructed, this greatly speeds/facilitates grading. Please follow all of
these instructions or points will be lost.
• Tissues must be drawn such that structures are recognizable. Shape and shading of structures
are important. For example, squamous epithelial cells should be flat
• Divide each page into four quarters for four tissues per page. Please use only one side of each page. Any
type of paper is fine (no fringes from notebooks, please).
• Tissues should be on the page in the order of the list on the next page of this assignment.
• Tissues should be labeled clearly with full and complete name of tissue type & subtype.
• If there is more than one tissue type in the picture, label the specific tissue you are trying to depict by
pointing to it with an arrow and/or by using brackets to show the labeled tissue.
• Indicate the special features/structures on the list clearly by labeling and pointing to them.
• The drawings should be clear & neat with the tissue type easily recognizable. They do not have to be an art
project.
• Color is not necessary. The assignment can be done in pencil, pen, cave pigment…it doesn’t matter.
• Extreme detail is not needed, but it should have enough detail so that I can id the tissue. Structure, shape,
arrangement etc. is what is important.
You will submit your drawings as one single PDF document.
• Take a good photo or scan of each page.
• Insert all of the images, in order, into a word document –one of your pages per page of the document.
o There are extensive instructions on how to do this in multiple word processing
programs in this folder.
• Save as a single PDF document titled “Your last name first name drawings”
• After you have created the document, please check that the images and labels are clearly visible & that the
pages are in order.
o It is your responsibility to check: If they are not clear I will grade the submission as is
Using the photos provided of IHCC slides (not from your textbook or atlas! = no points), draw
the tissues below, including underlined structures when indicated.
Drawings should reflect how tissue appears at 400x magnification. Total points = 16 points
(1/2 point for each tissue or feature labeled)
Epithelium (4 points)
• Simple Squamous Epithelium
• Stratified Squamous Epithelium
• Simple Cuboidal Epithelium
• Simple Columnar Epithelium (label goblet cell)
• Pseudostratified Columnar Epithelium (label cilia)
• Transitional Epithelium
Connective Tissue (7 points)
• Areolar Connective Tissue
• Dense Regular Elastic Connective Tissue
• Dense Regular Collagenous Connective Tissue
• Dense Irregular Elastic Connective Tissue
• Dense Irregular Collagenous Connective Tissue
• Reticular Connective Tissue
• Adipose Connective Tissue
• Osseous (Bone) Connective Tissue
• Blood Connective Tissue
• Hyaline Cartilage Connective Tissue (label chondrocytes and lacunae)
• Elastic Cartilage Connective Tissue
• Fibrocartilage Connective Tissue
Muscle Tissue (3.5 points)
• Skeletal Muscle (label nucleus and striations)
• Smooth Muscle (label nucleus)
• Cardiac Muscle (label intercalated disc)
Nervous Tissue (1.5 points)
• Nervous Tissue (Label neurons and neuroglial cells)
