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.
The cells of a connective tissue are loosely scattered in a matrix.  The matrix can be a fluid, jelly like, dense or rigid. The nature  of matrix depends on the function a c â¦ onnective tissue serves.as  Blood is composed of blood cells, platelets and plasma.Blood plays  an important role in transportation of various substances in the  body.hat defines a connective tissue is living cells surrounded by a non-living extracellular matrix. The red and white blood cells are the living cells and the plasma they float â¦ in is the non-living extracellular matrix therefore blood is classified as a connective tissue.