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The short bones are compact bones, spongy bones, femur bones and finally spinal cord.

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correct answer: the backbone(vertebral column)is not the longest bone in the body.The backbone is actually 33 small bones joined.They protect the spinal cord.The longest bone in the skeleton is found in the thigh and the smallest is found in the ear.

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How many types of bones are found in the humen skeleton?

There are five main types of bones in the human skeleton: long bones (e.g. femur), short bones (e.g. carpals), flat bones (e.g. skull bones), irregular bones (e.g. vertebrae), and sesamoid bones (e.g. patella). Each type serves specific functions in the body's structure and support.


What are the two long bones in the skeleton?

There are more than two long bones in the skeleton but if you mean the two longest bones then the femur (longest) and tibia second longest).


Types of bones?

There are four main types of bones in the human body: long bones (e.g. femur, humerus), short bones (e.g. carpals, tarsals), flat bones (e.g. skull, ribs), and irregular bones (e.g. vertebrae, hip bones). Each type of bone has a specific shape and function in the body.


How many long bones in the human body?

There are a total of 206 bones in the human body, and approximately 80 of these are classified as long bones. These include bones like the femur, humerus, tibia, and fibula, which are typically found in the arms and legs.


What's the difference between the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton?

The axial skeleton is made up of the skull/cranium, jaw (mandible), sternum, ribs, vertebrae (including sacrum and coccyx). The appendicular skeleton is made of the scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges (also known as finger bones), ilium, ischium, pubis, femur, patella, tibia, fibula, tarsals, metatarsals, and some more phalanges (also known as toe bones).

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How many long bones are in the human skeleton?

thirty-two


How many types of bones are in the skeleton?

There are 206 bones in an adult human skeleton, and there are many classifications, four mainly: Long bones, Short bones, Flat Bones, Irregular Bones. Sometimes a fifth category is added- Sesamoid Bones.


How is a cytoskeleton like a human skeleton?

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How many bones in a chimpanzee skeleton?

About 300. They have very small bones, though, which gives them the big frame. Small bones can go a long way!


How many types of bones are found in the skeleton?

They are four types of bones, long,short, irregular, and flat bone.


How many types of bones are found in the humen skeleton?

There are five main types of bones in the human skeleton: long bones (e.g. femur), short bones (e.g. carpals), flat bones (e.g. skull bones), irregular bones (e.g. vertebrae), and sesamoid bones (e.g. patella). Each type serves specific functions in the body's structure and support.


What are the short bones in the human skeleton?

The body consists of long bones, flat bones, irregular bones, short bones and sesmoid bones. The short bones include bones in the wrist and foot.


What are the two long bones in the skeleton?

There are more than two long bones in the skeleton but if you mean the two longest bones then the femur (longest) and tibia second longest).


When you are born what is most of your skeleton made up of?

At birth, the majority of the human skeleton is mineralized bone, although there are still cartilage growth plates in all the long bones.


Four categories of bones do MOST of the bones of the appendicular skeleton fit into?

long bones


Examples of bones according to its shape and size?

Examples of long bones are the femur in the thigh and the humerus in the upper arm. Flat bones include the skull and the sternum. Short bones are found in the wrist (carpals) and ankle (tarsals). Irregular bones like the vertebrae in the spine and the hip bones have complex shapes.


Types of bones?

There are four main types of bones in the human body: long bones (e.g. femur, humerus), short bones (e.g. carpals, tarsals), flat bones (e.g. skull, ribs), and irregular bones (e.g. vertebrae, hip bones). Each type of bone has a specific shape and function in the body.