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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: 03 Connective Tissue, costal cartilage of the ribs which connects ribs to cartilage, fat cells function energy storage, chemical mixture called ground substance, fibroblasts are spindle-shaped cells, fibro purpose binding strength, light duty binding such as binding the skin to muscle, proteins that form fibers, connects one thing to another it forms the body's infrastructure, connective examples fat, collagen is hard to see hard to stain, hyaline examples caps on bones, spindle-shaped cells that create connective tissue proper, connective examples tendon, chemical mixture containing proteins, extracellular material which is the matrix, connective examples bone, elastic doesn't have much collagen, elastic example outer ear, collagen fibers oriented in all directions gives it flexiility, cartilage types fibro