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Question
Some epithelia are pseudostratified. What does this mean?
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Solution
Pseudostratified epithelial cells are columnar but unequal in size. Although the epithelium is single-layered yet it appears to be multilayered due to the fact that nuclei lie at different levels in different cells.
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