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.
tissue fluid. Â© A Dictionary of Biology 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. tissue fluid The fluid, consisting of water, ions, and dissolved gases and food substances, that is formed when blood is ultrafiltered (see ultrafiltration) from the capillaries into the intercellular spaces.