15th Edition

ISBN: 9781119329398

Author: Gerard J Tortora, Bryan Derrickson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

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The smallest, basic, and structural component of the body is a cell. It is the basic functional unit of life. No organism can exist on this Earth without a cell. Thus, it is the fundamental unit. These cells perform the major functions of the body. The t…

Types of Tissues

The smallest, basic, and structural component of the body is the cell. It is the functional unit of life. No organism can exist on this Earth without a cell. An organism's body, whether unicellular or multicellular, is made of cells. In unicellular organ…

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Imagine that you live 50 years in the future, and that you can custom-design a human to suit the environment. Your assignment is to customize the human's tissues so that the individual can survive on a large planet with gravity, a cold, dry climate, and a thin atmosphere. What adaptations would you incorporate into the structure and/or amount of tissues, and why?

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Principles of Anatomy and Physiology

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