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They make up the skeleton and protect internal structures.
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How is the embryology of echinoderms similar to vertebrates?
Echinoderms such as starfish and similar marine animals with radially symmetrical bodies have bone-like calcareous skeletal plates in their skin
What system does the spines in a starfish belong to?
Skeletal system
What are the bony plates of a starfish called?
where bony plates growth zone is found in..
What bony plates make up a starfishs skeleton?
The bony plates that make up a starfish's skeleton is the ossicles. They are found in not only starfish but sea cucumbers and sea urchins also.
What make up starfish endoskeleton?
calcareous plates
What bony plates make up the starfishes skeleton?
The bony plates of a starfish are made up from calcium carbonate. When the starfish dies, the skeleton usually denigrates and nothing remains except for the oral disk.
What bony plates make up starfish skeleton?
It is the ossicles :)
What are ambulacral ossicles?
In a starfish, the ambulacral ossicles are little calcified bony plates covering the radial canal.
Besides bones what else makes up the human skeletal system?
The human skeletal system also includes things such as groove plates, joints and bone fragment. By Taylor (wpms)
Is a starfish a endoskelton?
Yes, they , like other echinoderms have mesodermal endoskeletons made up of calcareous ossicles, (bony plates).
Will a starfish live if it is cut in half?
Yes, as long as the starfish is still alive and both sides of the starfish have part of the center it can regenerate.
Do starfish shrink in size?
No. There is no hard, inflexible exoskeleton. The starfish skin has hard protuberances called ossicles, in the form of small plates and spines, which offers most species some protection. The only way a starfish can become smaller is through extreme starvation, disease, or losing one or more arms to a predator. In many starfish, the arms will regrow.
