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Also Known As tissue system

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Cross-sectional diagram of a plant stem showing three types of simple tissues: parenchyma, sclerenchyma, and collenchyma, with distinct cell structures in different colors.
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Key People

Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
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Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
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Keith Roberts Porter
American biologist
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Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Bichat, detail of an engraving
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Cohnheim
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
German pathologist
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Swiss embryologist