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Appearance
Outline for Colony (biology)
[edit]Life History
[edit]Reproductive Strategies
[edit]Growth Patterns
[edit]Adaptive Significance
[edit]Competition
[edit]Predation
[edit]Function
[edit]The skeleton performs a variety of functions. It supports the body, is the attachment point for muscles, absorbs shock from the force of moving muscles (during locomotion), and protects soft tissue from injury, predation, infection, and disease.
Body support and shape
[edit]Muscle attachment
[edit]Protection
[edit]Locomotion
[edit]Development and growth
[edit]There are 4 major growth patterns of skeletons: accretion, molting, addition of skeletal elements, and modification.[1]
Accretion
[edit]Molting
[edit]Addition of skeletal elements
[edit]Modification
[edit]Evolution
[edit]Uses
[edit]Forensic investigation
[edit]Paleontology and Paleoecology
[edit]- ^ Dodd, J. Robert; Stanton, Robert J. (1990). Paleoecology, concepts and applications (2nd ed. ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471857112.
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