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CHAPTER 7
STRUCTURAL ORGANISATION IN
ANIMALS
7.1 Animal Tissues In the preceding chapters you came across a large variety of organisms,
both unicellular and multicellular, of the animal kingdom. In unicellular
7.2 Organ and Organ
organisms, all functions like digestion, respiration and reproduction
System
are performed by a single cell. In the complex body of multicellular
7.3 Earthworm animals the same basic functions are carried out by different groups of
7.4 Cockroach cells in a well organised manner. The body of a simple organism like
Hydra is made of different types of cells and the number of cells in each
7.5 Frogs
type can be in thousands. The human body is composed of billions of
cells to perform various functions. How do these cells in the body work
together? In multicellular animals, a group of similar cells alongwith
intercellular substances perform a specific function. Such an organisation
is called tissue.
You may be surprised to know that all complex animals consist of
only four basic types of tissues. These tissues are organised in specific
proportion and pattern to form an organ like stomach, lung, heart and
kidney. When two or more organs perform a common function by their
physical and/or chemical interaction, they together form organ system,
e.g., digestive system, respiratory system, etc. Cells, tissues, organs and
organ systems split up the work in a way that exhibits division of labour
and contribute to the survival of the body as a whole.
Flattened cell
(a)
Cube-like cell
(b)
Tall cell
(d)
(c)
Figure 7.1 Simple epithelium: (a) Squamous (b) Cuboidal (c) Columnar
(d) Columnar cells bearing cilia
Macro-
phage
Fat storage
Fibroblast area
Collagen Nucleus
fibers
fibres
Plasma
Membrane
(b)
(a) Mast
cell
Figure 7.4 Loose connective tissue : (a) Areolar tissue (b) Adipose tissue
Smooth Striations
Striations muscle
fibers
Nucleus
Junction
between
Nucleus adjacent
cells
The smooth muscle fibres taper at both ends (fusiform) and do not
show striations (Figure 7.7b). Cell junctions hold them together and they
are bundled together in a connective tissue sheath. The wall of internal
organs such as the blood vessels, stomach and intestine contains this type
of muscle tissue. Smooth muscles are ‘involuntary’ as their functioning
cannot be directly controlled. We usually are not able to make it contract
merely by thinking about it as we can do with skeletal muscles.
Cardiac muscle tissue is a contractile tissue present only in the heart.
Cell junctions fuse the plasma membranes of cardiac muscle cells and
make them stick together (Figure 7.7c). Communication junctions
(intercalated discs) at some fusion points allow the cells to contract as a
unit, i.e., when one cell receives a signal to contract, its neighbours are
also stimulated to contract.
7.4 COCKROACH
7.4.1 Morphology
The adults of the common species of cockroach, Periplaneta americana
are about 34-53 mm long with wings that extend beyond the tip of the
abdomen in males. The body of the cockroach is segmented and divisible
into three distinct regions – head, thorax and abdomen (Figure 7.14).
The entire body is covered by a hard chitinous exoskeleton (brown in
colour). In each segment, exoskeleton has hardened plates called sclerites
(tergites dorsally and sternites ventrally) that are joined to each other by
a thin and flexible articular membrane (arthrodial membrane).
Filiform antennae
Compound eye Head
Pronotum
Mesothorax Tegmina
Prothoracie leg
Hind wing
Metathorax
Mesothoracic leg
Anal cerci
Ocellus
Compound eye
Labrum
Grinding
region
Incising
Mandible region
Mandible
Hypopharynx
Maxilla
Mandible
Labrum
Maxilla Maxilla
Labium
(a) Labium
(b)
Figure 7.15 Head region of cockroach : (a) parts of head region (b) mouth parts
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Testis
Phallic gland
Small tubules
Long tubules
Seminal vesicle
Vas deferens
Ejaculatory duct
Right phallomere
Ventral phallomere
Anal cercus
Caudal style
Left phallomere Pseudopenis
Titillator (a)
Ovary
Oviduct
Spermatheca
Common oviduct
or vagina
Collaterial glands
]
Genital chamber Genital
pouch
gonapophyses Vestibulum
(b)
Figure 7.18 Reproductive system of cockroach : (a) male (b) female