Structural Organisation In Animals Question 66

Question: Assertion : Urinary bladder can considerably expand to accommodate urine. Reason : It is lined by stretchable squamous epithelium.

Options:

A) If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

B) If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion

C) If the assertion is true but the reason is false

D) If both the assertion and reason are false

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Answer:

Correct Answer: C

Solution:

Urinary bladder is not lined by squamous epithelium but by transitional epithelium which is a stretchable compound epithelium.

It has a single layer of cuboidal cells at the base, 2-3 middle layers of large polygonal cells and a superficial layer of large, broad rectangular cells.

Stretching considerably flattens and broadens the cells of superficial and middle layers, hence causing expansion of the urinary bladder.