Connective tissue is one of the four basic types of animal tissue, along with epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue. It develops from the mesoderm. All connective tissue consists of three main components: fibers (elastic and collagenous fibers), ground substance and cells.

Mesoderm is the middle of the three primary germ layers of an embryo that is the source of many bodily tissues and structures (such as bone, muscle, connective tissue, and dermis)

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