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Lesson: Chapter 1 — Living Tissues

1.2.3. Muscle tissue 5 of 6

Question 5

Why does muscle tissue have a good blood supply when epithelial tissue has none?

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Because contracting costs energy, which has to be released from food using oxygen. A tissue that contracts constantly needs both delivered constantly.

Epithelium cannot have vessels running through it without making holes in the barrier it exists to be. Each tissue’s blood supply follows from what it does.

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