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How are baby bones different from adults?

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Young children have smaller bones than adults.

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How many bones does a baby have at birth and how many bones do children and adults have?

at birth a baby has 300 bones and children and adults have 206 bones now


How many bone the baby have?

Baby has the same amount bones with the adults.


What bones do babies have that adults do not?

Babies have more bones than adults but the only way this is, is because numerous bones the babies have are not yet fused together. For example, the skull of a baby is several different bones, after a while they fuse together to form the complete skull.


How many bones do adults have in their?

206, 270 when your a baby


How many bones when where a baby?

About 306, more than when we are adults because our bones morph together and make us bigger when we are adults.


How many bones are there in a small baby?

A baby's skeleton contains 300 or more bones. These bones fuse together as the baby grows which explains why adults have less bones than babies and even children.


How is a babies bones different than an adults?

The baby's skull is broken up in to many sections, as the child gets older those pieces fuse together to make one solid structure. Also, baby's are born with out knee caps. Babies are born with 270 bones, as they get older, they have 206.


How are bones of a baby different from a grown person?

They are still growing so the ends of the bones have growth plates known as epiphyseal plates. Adults have an epiphyseal line where the plate once was.The growth occurs toward the shaft of the bone.Children's bones tend to bend much more than adults' bones before they break. When children's bones do break they heal faster than adult bones.yeswhen you were born you had 300 bones, as you grow older your bones attach to eachother so now you have 260 bones. the diffence may be the size and lenth of bones. adult bones might be a little more bruised and fractured as adults have been in more accidents than children, as adults have had more experience.Diiferentiate the adult bones and child bones


Do adults have fewer bones than a new-born baby?

New born babies have various pieces of bones that have not yet fused together into the complete bones that adults have, so as a result, babies have more bones.


Why do adults bones fuse together?

Because children have more bones than adults. They is because the bones fuse together when the children are growing. A baby has 300 bones at birth. But because bones fuse together during the "growth period", adults have less bones and they end up with 206 bones.


Who has more bones adults teenagers or babies?

As I know I think babies have less bone in their skull than adults.


Can bones grow at different rate?

Yes, bones do change and grow. When every one is born they start off life as a baby and as we all know babies are tiny. In order for babies to grow in to children, teens and eventually in to adults their bones have to grow.