The size of a stone crab claw is considered to be the length of the propodus. The propodus is the larger, immovable part of the claw. Legal-sized (harvestable size) claws are 70 mm (2 3/4 inches) or greater in propodus length.
Blood is called a connective tissue because it carries with it many digestive substances, oxygen from lungs, foods from small intestines and provide it to other tissues and organs of the body.
9. Blood: is considered a connective tissue because it consists of blood cells surround by plasma (the non-living, fluid matrix). a. Fibers of the blood are protein fibers that become visible during clotting D. Muscle Tissue 1. Muscle Tissues are highly specialized to contract to produce movement 2.