{"id":1845,"date":"2020-07-14T11:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:17:31","slug":"q-4-what-are-the-components-of-human-skeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-4-what-are-the-components-of-human-skeleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Q.4 What are the components of human skeleton?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q.4 What are the components of human skeleton?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\n206 bones are present in the adult human skeleton. Skeleton can divide into two parts:<br \/>\n<strong> 1. Axial Skeleton<\/strong><br \/>\nBones are organized into a longitudinal axis i-e axial skeleton. Axial Skeleton consists of 80 bones in the head and trunk of body.<br \/>\n<strong>Parts<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is composed of five parts:<br \/>\ni Skull Contains 22 bones out of which 8 are cranial bones (enclosing the brain) and 14 are facial bones.<br \/>\nii. Middle ear ossicles 6 bones are present in middle ear (3 in each ear).<br \/>\niii. Hyoid bone It is present in neck.<br \/>\niv. Vertebral column It contains 33 bones and these bones are called vertebrae.<br \/>\nv. Chest Chest is made up of a chest bone called sternum and ribs. 24 ribs are present in 12 pairs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1846 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/skelton.jpg\" alt=\"skelton\" width=\"485\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/skelton.jpg 485w, https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/skelton-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>2. Appendicular skeleton: <\/strong><br \/>\nApendicular skeleton is attached to the axial skeleton. Appendicular skeleton is composed of 126 bones.<br \/>\n<strong>Parts<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is divided into two parts.<br \/>\n1) Pectoral Girdle (Shoulders): It is called shoulder girdle and made up of 4 bones. Arms have six<br \/>\nbones. Both hands have 54 bones.<br \/>\n2) Pelvic Girdle (hips): It has two bones. Legs have 6 bones and feet have 54 bones.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/unit-13-support-and-movement-long-questions\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1462 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back_button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q.4 What are the components of human skeleton? Introduction 206 bones are present in the adult human skeleton. Skeleton can divide into two parts: 1. Axial Skeleton Bones are organized into a longitudinal axis i-e axial skeleton. Axial Skeleton consists of 80 bones in the head and trunk of body. Parts It is composed of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-4-what-are-the-components-of-human-skeleton\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q.4 What are the components of human skeleton?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}