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Radiocarbon dating
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What is the method called which dates organic material such as bones an wood?
The process is called 'carbon dating'.
What are the cords called that attach your bones to your skeletal muscles?
The tough organic material attaching bones to muscle is called a tendon.
Are bones permanent?
Bones can decay like any other organic material. Sometimes, however, bones can be preserved in rock - those are called fossils.
What is plant and animal remains called?
In biology, detritus is non-living particulate organic material (as opposed to dissolved organic material). It typically includes the bodies or fragments of dead organisms as well as fecal material.
What is the function of the organic material in bone?
The organic material in bone, primarily collagen, provides flexibility and tensile strength, allowing bones to bend without breaking. It also helps in the repair and remodeling of bone tissue.
What material found between two bones is called?
Tendons.
The white material that reduces friction at the ends of bones is called?
Cartilage
A 75-years old woman and her 9-years-old granddaughter were victims of a train crash In both cases trauma to the chest was sustained X rays of the grandmother revealed several fractures ribs but her g?
The child had more organic material in her bones, which allows bones to be more flexible, while her grandmother's bones are extensively calcified, with little organic material, and are probably thin due to osteoporosis.
Which artifact could best be dated with carbon-14 a method called radiocarbon dating?
Organic artifacts such as bones, wood, charcoal, and organic remains from archaeological sites can best be dated using radiocarbon dating. This method is not suitable for inorganic materials like rocks or metal artifacts.
Bones in your joints are covered with a smooth and slippery material called?
cartilage
Some of your bones are filled with a special material called what which makes blood cells?
That special material is called as red bone marrow. You have red bone marrow in the skull bones, vertebrae, pelvic bones, ribs, scapula and sternum. In case of children,you have the red bone marrow in the cavity of the long bones, in addition to above mentioned flat bones.
Are fossils found in tar pits actual bones?
No. The organic material has gradually been replaced over millions of years, so that fossils are basically stone.
