Question

__________is a flexible connective tissue located in Epiglottis and rings of trachea.
1. Bone
2. Cartilage
3. Blood
4. Lymph

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Cartilage

The correct answer is Cartilage.

• Cartilage is connective tissue and is an important structural component of the body.

• It is flexible but less vascularized connective tissue than bone.
• Cartilage is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes which produce large amounts of extracellular matrix composed of collagen fibres, proteoglycan, and elastin fibres.
• These cells are present in groups of two or three in lacunae.
• It is located in the flexible parts of the body such as the ear pinna, epiglottis, rings of the trachea, etc.