Question:
A hypothetical organ has the following functional requirements:
The ability to brush substances past its cells.
The ability to contract in an involuntary and autorhythmic fashion.
The ability to be flexible but also tough.
The organ needs one tissue to carry out each of these requirements, and it also needs one tissue to "glue" all other tissues together.
What are the four tissues that will make up this hypothetical organ? Justify your choices.
a) Epithelial tissue, nervous tissue, smooth muscle tissue, connective tissue
b) Muscle tissue, epithelial tissue, nervous tissue, connective tissue
c) Epithelial tissue, cardiac muscle tissue, connective tissue, nervous tissue
d) Smooth muscle tissue, nervous tissue, connective tissue, epithelial tissue
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