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Outline for Colony (biology)

Life History

Reproductive Strategies

Growth Patterns

Adaptive Significance

Competition

Predation

Outline for Skeleton

Function

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

Muscle attachment

Protection

Locomotion

Development and growth

There are 4 major growth patterns of skeletons: accretion, molting, addition of skeletal elements, and modification.^[1]

Accretion

Molting

Addition of skeletal elements

Modification

Evolution

Uses

Forensic investigation

Paleontology and Paleoecology

^ Dodd, J. Robert; Stanton, Robert J. (1990). Paleoecology, concepts and applications (2nd ed. ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471857112. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)

[1] Dodd, J. Robert; Stanton, Robert J. (1990). Paleoecology, concepts and applications (2nd ed. ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471857112. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)

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