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What are the following and where do you find them in animal body.
(a) Chondrocytes
(b) Axons
(c) Ciliated epithelium



Answer -

(a) Chondrocytes:
These are the cells found in cartilage connective tissue. The number of chondrocytes found in cartilage determine how bendy the cartilage is chondrocytes produce and maintain the cartilage matrix. It is present in the tip of the nose, pinna of ear, joints between vertebral column, etc.
(b) Axon:
It is the longest processes of a neuron, that conducts the impulse away from the cell body. They are present in all nerve fibres.
(c) Ciliated epithelium:
When cuboidal or columnar epithelial cells bear cilia, they are called as ciliated epithelium.
Ciliated epithelium is found in the living of respirator tract, bronchioles and fallopian tube. It contains goblet cells, which secretes mucus.

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