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What is another name for your backbone?
Back Bone: your spine...made of spinal vertebrae
How many bones are in the adult backbone?
There are typically 26 bones in the adult backbone, consisting of 24 individual vertebrae and the sacrum and coccyx bone.
Are crabs Invertebrates.?
Yes, as a vertebra is a piece of a backbone. As such invertebrate means an organism that does not have a spinal column or back bone. Crabs have an exoskeleton (their external shell serves as a skeleton) instead of a back bone, they are therefore considered invertebrates. Crabs have no bones, including no vertebrae (backbones). They are invertebrates.
Does a sailfish have a backbone?
Yes, sail fish has a back bone. They are part of the phylum chordata, so they do have a back bone.
What are vetebrae?
Did you mean "vertebrae"?"A vertebra (plural: vertebrae) an individual bone in the flexible column that defines vertebrate animals, e.g. humans."Definition from Wikipedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrae
Where in the body is the vertebrae located?
It is your backbone and forms a protection around your spinal cord. It runs from the base of your skull to your "tail bone".
What is another name for a backbone?
The vertebrae. There are 7 in the neck (cervical), 12 in the thorax (chest), and 5 in the lower back (lumbar). The wedge shaped bone in the back of the pelvis (the sacrum) is composed of 5 fused vertebrae and the the coccyx (or "tail bone") has 3-5 vertebrae.
Can you move one bone in your backbone without moving the others?
No, you cannot move one individual bone in your backbone, or vertebra, without affecting the others. The vertebrae in the spine are connected by intervertebral discs, ligaments, and muscles, which allow for a coordinated movement of multiple vertebrae. Any movement of one vertebra typically involves the adjacent vertebrae as well, due to their structural and functional interdependence.
Are mammals backbones made with cartilage?
There is cartilage in backbone and between the parts of the vertebrae of the backbone but the bone itself is actually an organ that produces blood like all other bones do.
Has a cat has a backbone?
Of course it does. Although, as in all vertebrates, the backbone is not a single bone, but a set of vertebrae, small bones linked together, so that the overall backbone will bend, while still protecting the spinal nerve.
What kind of tissue makes up a snake's backbone?
Snakes have a backbone made up of vertebrae, which are bones that provide support and protect the spinal cord. These vertebrae are unique in snakes because they are elongated and highly specialized to allow for the snake's flexible and agile movement.
How many backbones does a bird have?
Birds have one backbone that consists of various numbers of vertebrae. There are 11 to 25 cervical vertebrae (neck), the synsacrum (fused vertebrae of the back connected to the pelvis), and the pygostyle (tail bone).
