This document provides instructions for a histology take-home exam. Students are asked to log onto a virtual microscopy website and identify various tissue structures from slides. They must capture screenshots of the structures, label them, and submit the completed PowerPoint file by email. Sample questions are provided asking students to identify specific structures like ciliated columnar epithelium, squamous epithelium, exocrine glands, islets of Langerhans, bronchi, bile ducts, goblet cells, glomeruli, proximal tubules, neurons, and white matter from slides of different tissues and pathology cases.

1. Biology of Disease
Histology Take Home Exam
• Please do this exam by yourself.
• Log onto the PEIR-VM website (http://peir.net) and use
the Virtual Microscopy slides available there.
• Each question will ask you to find a structure. Look at the
VM slide and find the structure – then do a screen
capture and paste that image file into the PowerPoint
slide. Add arrows and/or a caption if you feel it is
necessary to identify the location of the structure(s)
requested.
• When you have completed the exam e-mail the
PowerPoint file to pga@uab.edu
• Exam due by Friday September 26th

2. Sample question and answer
Find the ciliated columnar epithelium in the section of Lung: Bronchogenic
Carcinoma in IPLab # 7.
Ciliated
columnar
epithelium

3. Question #1: Identify the squamous epithelium in the section of
skin from the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever case in IPLab #9.

4. Question #2: Identify an exocrine gland and an islet of Langerhans
in the pancreas from the adenoma case in IPLab #7.
Islet of
Langerhans
Exocrine gland

5. Question #3: Identify a bronchus in the lung section from the
bronchoneumonia case in IPLab #3.

6. Question #4: Identify a bile duct in the portal triad of the liver
slide from the chronic passive congestion case in IPLab #4.

7. Question #5: Identify a goblet cell in the normal appendix from
the case in IPLab #3.

8. Question #6: Identify a glomerulus and a proximal tubule in the
kidney slide from the atherosclerotic emboli case in IPLab #4.
glomerulus
Proximal
tubule

9. Question #7: Identify a neuron in the normal spinal cord slide
from the polio case in IPLab #8. Also indicate an area of white
matter.
neuron
White
matter