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Friday, September 11, 2026
Practice Identifying Tissues (Complete) (Key features on bottom)
Basic histology playlist: • Basic Histology (AP I)
Transitional epithelium: • Identifying Transitional Epithelium
00:00 introduction
01:40 Simple epithelium comparison
04:45 Stratified epithelium comparison
08:00 Dense CT proper comparison
09:35 Loose CT proper comparison
11:20 Cartilage comparison
12:45 Bone comparison
13:10 Muscle comparison
14:20 Nervous tissue
15:35 Common misidentification 1
16:58 Common misidentification 2
18:35 If you're totally lost
19:30 Practice 1
20:00 Practice 2
21:15 Practice 3
21:55 Practice 4
23:05 Practice 5
24:00 Practice 6
24:58 Practice 7
25:58 Practice 8
26:25 Practice 9
28:00 Practice 10
28:35 Practice 11
29:00 Practice 12
29:32 Practice 13
30:13 Practice 14
30:50 Practice 15
31:45 Practice 16
33:10 Practice 17
34:54 Practice 18
35:50 Practice 19
36:25 Practice 20
36:50 Practice 21
37:20 Practice 22
37:50 Practice 23
38:26 Practice 24
38:55 Practice 25
39:35 Practice 26
40:15 Practice 27
40:49 Practice 28
42:40 Practice 29
43:14 Practice 30
43:40 Practice 31
44:02 Practice 32
44:52 Practice 33
45:22 Last answer
45:35 Advice for correcting repeated mistakes
Tissues included: Simple squamous, simple cuboidal, simple columnar, ciliated pseudostratified, stratified cuboidal, keratinized stratified squamous (thick and thin), non-keratinized stratified squamous, transitional epithelium, areolar connective tissue, reticular, adipose, dense regular, dense irregular, elastic CT, hyaline cartilage, elastic cartilage, fibrocartilage, spongy bone, compact bone, blood, smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and nervous tissue
Characteristics discussed: cilia, microvilli, goblet cells, collagen fibers, elastic fibers, reticular fibers, fibroblasts, chondrocytes, osteoblasts, lacuna, osteons, striations, neurons, glial cells
NOT included: Stratified columnar (due to the fact it's exceedingly rare and hard to find examples of)
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Monday, September 7, 2026
Meet the Neighbors....(birds)
YES, those are real. That's a Great Potoo, a Tawny Frogmouth, a Puffin, and a Shoebill. 
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