What are difference between the types of epithelial tissues?
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For those of you who grew up playing with Legos, you surely would have noticed that, despite the wide variety of shapes and colors, they were still basically little plastic bricks.
Epithelial tissue, the type of tissue that lines the surfaces and cavities of your body's organs, is no different.Epithelial tissue is like the brand name Lego: Lego has differently sized and shaped blocks, and epithelial tissue has differently sized and shaped cells. Lego blocks can be arranged into differently shaped structures, and epithelial cells can be arranged into differently shaped structures as well.
Regardless of the shape, size, or arrangement of the cells, they are still a type of, or part of, epithelial tissue, just like all our differently sized, shaped, and arranged plastic bricks are still Legos.