Adipose Tissue MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

• This is fat storing connective tissue. 

Structure: 

• The adipose tissue is made up of adipose cells or adipocytes.
• An adipose cell consists of fat globule which displaces the nucleus and cytoplasm to the periphery.
• Adipose tissue is of two types i.e. white fat and brown fat.

1. White fat: These are larger cells with single large fat globule.
2. Brown fat: These cells contain a number of fat globules and they are brown in colour due to the presence of pigment cytochrome. This fat is found in hibernating mammals and newborn babies.

Location: 

• It is found in subcutaneous tissue, around the heart, kidneys, eyeballs, mesenteries and omenta, where fat storage is seen.
• It is also present in the blubber of whales and elephants, the hump of a camel, fat bodies of frog etc.

Functions:

• This tissue is chiefly a fat reserve. 
• Subcutaneous fat prevents heat loss from the body.
• It forms a shock-absorbing cushion around the eyeballs and kidney. 
• Adipose tissue also provide support and protection.