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he relationship of structure and function is one of the major themes in biology. For each of the following tissue types, describe the structure of the cells and tissue, identify a part of the digestive tract that contains this tissue, and then explain how the function is related to the structure.

simple columnar epithelial tissue

smooth muscle tissue

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