Dr. riehm shows you an unlabeled tissue slide and says the tissue is very resistant to stretching, tearing, and compression. he then asks you what you can conclude about the structure of the extracellular matrix (ecm)

The correct answer would be - The ECM has abundant collagen fibers in a gel-like ground substance.

Explanation:

A tissue that is very much resistance to tearing, stretching and compression would be, due to presence of high amount of the thick bundles of the collagen fibers in its extra cellular matrix. The ground substance of such tissue is gel like.

Fibrocartilage is the tissue which is resist to stretching, compression, and tearing due to its toughness that is comes from thick bundles of collagen fibers in gel like matrix.

Thus, the correct answer is - The ECM has abundant collagen fibers in a gel-like ground substance.

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