SCIENCE
SKELETAL SYSTEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A baby’s body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse (grow together) to form the 206 bones that adults have.
Detailed explanation-2: -Babies have more bones than adults because as they grow up, some of the bones fuse together to form one bone. This is because babies have more cartilage than bone. New born babies have around 305 bones.
Detailed explanation-3: -The baby skeleton has more bones and cartilages. During development many of these cartilages become bones by the process called ossification and some bones fuse to form a bigger bone reducing the number of bones to 206. Q. Babies have about 300 bones while adults have only 206.
Detailed explanation-4: -An adult has 206 bones, but newborns have around 300 bones in their body. It is so because babies have more flexible cartilage in the body. While a child grows, most of the cartilage hardens and gets converted to bone.
Detailed explanation-5: -There are typically around 270 bones in human infants, which fuse to become 206 to 213 bones in the human adult.