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A single cell can do everything a cell needs to do. The moment an organism gets large, that stops being efficient — so cells specialise, and a group of similar cells doing one job together is a tissue. Xavier Bichat named them, and the study of tissues, histology, still runs on his idea.
Why this chapter earns its place in every general-science paper: it is the cheapest possible source of one-line questions. Which tissue joins muscle to bone? Which muscle is striated but not under your control? Which plant tissue is dead but load-bearing? Each has exactly one answer, no calculation, no ambiguity.
The whole chapter is a sorting exercise. Plants have two families of tissue, animals have four, and almost every question asks you to place one item in the right box.
1. Which of the following is a connective tissue?
2. A tendon connects:
3. Which muscle tissue is striated but involuntary?
4. Which plant tissue is dead at maturity and gives hardness to the husk of a coconut?
5. Increase in the girth (thickness) of a stem is brought about by which meristem?
6. Which component of phloem is dead?
7. Parenchyma tissue that contains chloroplasts and carries out photosynthesis is called:
8. The kidney tubules and the ducts of glands are lined by which type of epithelium?