A tendon is made up of _________.
only collagen fibres
The correct answer is only collagen fibres.
A tendon is dense regular (white fibrous) connective tissue: tightly packed parallel bundles of collagen (mainly type I) fibres with a few fibroblasts and very little matrix. This gives it great tensile strength to transmit the pull of a muscle to bone.
Elastic (yellow) fibres are practically absent in tendons; they dominate in the ligamenta flava and large arteries. Reticular fibres form the supporting network of the liver, lymph nodes and bone marrow.
Short trick: Tendon = white fibrous tissue = collagen; yellow fibrous tissue = elastin.
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