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Since you have the luxuryLuxury? Yes, a luxury because, on a lab practicum, your instructor will expect you to figure out the primary tissue type on your own. of already knowing this is nervous tissue, note the large cell with many slender projections [for example, (a) or e-f] branching off of the large cell body that encloses the dark-purple staining (d) found inside the lighter-staining (c).

Once you have classified the tissue, you should be able to identify the cell type (b) that serve to support, nourish, and protect neurons.

Nervous tissue

1. Processes (dendrites)
2. Neuroglia (glial cells)
3. Nucleus
4. Nucleolus
5. Axon hillock*
6. Axon*
7. Brain**
8. Receive, process, and transmit information***

*Note: structures (e) and (f) are for advanced students--your course may only require you to identify any branch from the cell body of neuron as a "process".

**Other locations include: (1) spinal cord; (2) autonomic ganglia of peripheral nervous system

***Put another way: communication via electrical and chemical signals