Question
What type of tissue is blood?
A. Liquid connective tissue
B. Skeletal tissue
C. Areolar tissue
D. Endodermal tissue
Answer
Correct answer: A. Liquid connective tissue. Blood has the basic organization of connective tissue: cellular components are dispersed in an extracellular matrix. Its formed elements include red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets, while plasma is the liquid extracellular matrix.
This liquid matrix lets blood circulate and transport gases, nutrients, hormones, wastes, and immune components. Skeletal tissue is not the correct category. Areolar tissue is a different form of loose connective tissue, and “endodermal tissue” is not the classification of blood.
Blood is also commonly described as a specialized fluid connective tissue. That wording and the exam's “liquid connective tissue” option refer to the same classification for this question.
Evidence boundary
This answer uses the exact four-option version in Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University's April 2022 CC 102 examination. Other questions with the same keyword may use different distractors. The classification here is based on formed elements suspended in plasma and does not import a different MCQ version.
Sources
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