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Appendicular
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Axial
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100
These two bones connect with the upper arm to form the shoulder joint.
What are the clavicle and scapula?
100
This bone is located in the upper arm.
What is the humerus?
100
The basic unit of muscle contraction.
What is the sarcomere?
100
This bone is also known as the tail bone.
What is the coccyx?
100
This type of joint has lots of movement.
What is a synovial joint?
200
While the shin bone bears almost all of the body's weight, this other lower leg bone bears relatively little weight.
What is the fibula?
200
This bone is also known as the knee cap.
What is the patella?
200
The thin globular protein filament found in sarcomeres.
What is actin?
200
This bone is also known as the lower jaw bone.
What is the mandible?
200
This type of joint has no movement.
What is a fibrous joint?
300
This is the correct number of phalanges on each hand and foot.
What is 14?
300
These are the bones of the ankle.
What are the tarsals?
300
This is the number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
300
This is the only bone that does not form a joint.
What is the hyoid?
300
The upper leg bone into the hip is an example of this subtype of synovial joints.
What is a Ball-and-Socket joint?
400
These are the bones of the hand, and there are five in each hand.
What are the metacarpals?
400
This bone forms the front part of the top of the skull.
What is the frontal bone?
400
The thick motor protein filament found in sarcomeres.
What is myosin?
400
This one name is given to the six smallest bones of the body, found in the middle ear
What are the ossicles?
400
These fluid filled sacs provide cushioning in some joints.
What are bursae?
500
This lower arm bone forms a pivot joint at the elbow.
What is the radius?
500
The collective name of the five vertebrae of the lower back.
What are the lumbar vertebrae?
500
This model describes the mechanism of muscle contraction.
What is the Sliding-Filament Model?
500
Daily Double
The name of the c1 vertebra at the top of the spine which holds up the skull.
500
This is what ligaments connect bone to.
What is bone?