What is skeletal Tissue?
Modified connective tissue where cells and fibres have a particular organisation which becomes condensed so that the tissue formed is rigid.
Skeletal tissue makes up what percentage of the entire body's weight?
18%
Bones are classified based on their shapes, which are?
Long (humerus), short (trapezoid, wrist bone), flat (sternum), irregular (vertebra), sesamoid (patella)
What is the role of the epiphyseal plate?
Make the bones grow longer.
(Epiphyseal plate or a growth plate is found at the end of each bone, between the shaft (diaphysis) and epiphysis).