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- An internal or external, protective framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material, supporting and containing the organs of the human body is termed as skeleton. Skeleton has three components: bones, joints and cartilage.
- Bones Cartilage
- Bone is a hard, inelastic and rigid tissue
- Cartilage is a soft, elastic and flexible tissue
- Bones are hollow, compact and are of different shapes
- Cartilage is padlike and transparent
- Bones have a very hard matrix due to calcium salts
- Cartilages have slightly flexible matrix due to a protein called chondrin.
- Bones cannot be bent
- Cartilages can be bent easily at certain parts
- Bones can break and result in fracture Cartilages cannot break as they are flexible
- Example- radius, ulna, humerus, etc.
- Found in ear, nose, the bronchial tubes, etc.
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