fibrocartilage: cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue
tissue: part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
scopes trial: a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed