About lymph transport.
a) under normal conditions, lymph vessels are very high-pressure conduits.
b) lymph transport is faster than that occurring in veins.
c) lymph transport is only necessary when illness causes tissue swelling.
d) lymph transport depends on the movement of adjacent tissues, such as skeletal muscles.

The correct answer is: D) Lymph transport depends on the movement of adjacent tissues, such as skeletal muscles.

The lymphatic system is an open system which primarily consists of lymphatic vessels, (similar to the circulatory system's veins and capillaries) interrupted by lymph nodes, where the lymph is filtered. Since there is no central pump in lymphatic system (like heart in circulatory system) lymph transport, is slow and sporadic. Lymph movement occurs due to:

•peristalsis (contraction and relaxation of smooth muscle tissue),  

•valves,  

•contraction of adjacent skeletal muscle and  

•arterial pulsation.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle