Bone is the most important storehouse in the body for what mineral?
Calcium, phosphorus, magnesium
The bones of the arms and legs are classified as what type?
Long bones
What type of bone is adapted to withstand stresses arriving from many directions?
Trabeculae allows spongy bone to handle various forces
Is the hard, dense bone that forms the outer surface of bones what type of bone?
compact bone, periosteum
What structure allows the diaphysis of the bone to increase in length?
Epiphyseal plate
How does an epiphyseal plate differ from epiphyseal line?
Plate is still growing in children, line turns to cartilage in adults where plate used to be
What is the function of yellow bone marrow?
To store fat for energy and house mesenchymal stem cells that can differentiate into bone cartilage and fat cells for tissue repair and growth convert back into red bone marrow in emergency
Which cells participate in the process of bone deposition?Osteoprogenerator (stem cells) into osteoblasts that synthesize and secrete osteoid bone matrix, become entrapped within the matrix turn into osteocytes… osteoclasts multicellular, bone resorption breakdown
Osteoclasts
Bones are constantly undergoing resorption for various reasons. Which of the cells accomplish this process?
Osteoclasts, osteoblasts, osteocytes
What are the structural units of mature compact bone called?
osteons
Identify the components of an osteon of compact bone tissue.
Lacuna osteocyte, canaliculi, lamellae
Appositional growth produces what effect on bone?
Grows in width
Who experiences a greater amount of bone deposition: a person who routinely exercises or sedentary person?
Exercises
Explain why injuries involving the shoulder are common?
It is the most unstable with greatest range of motion
List the four ligaments associated with the knee joint.
ACL, PCL, Tibial (medial) and fibular ligaments (lateral)
What joint is characterized by the presence of dense or fibrous, connective tissue that holds two bones together with no space and abundant collagen fibers to form a tough connection with little to no movement?
A fibrous joint
What joints have hyaline cartilage allowing limited movement intervertebral discs and pubic symphysis?
A cartilaginous joint
What joint has space called an articular cavity forming a joint capsule called the fibrous layer has synovial fluid?
Synovial joint
Joint functional classification with no movement are what?
Synarthroses (cranial)
Joint classification with limited movement?
Amphiarthroses (intervertebral discs)
Joint classification that allows a large range of movement?
Diarthroses (shoulder, knee)
What attaches muscles to bones?
tendons
A parent cell has 28 chromosomes and completes meiosis. How many chromosomes result in each cell produced?
14
During what phase of meiosis are homologous chromosomes separated from one another and pulled toward opposite poles of the cell by spindle fibers?
Anaphase 1