- Long bones provide strength and mobility, with the femur being an example
- Long bones have two types of bone marrow and serve as storage for essential minerals
- Bones are classified based on shape into long, short, flat, and irregular
- The axial skeleton includes bones in the head, neck, back, and chest, while the appendicular skeleton includes bones in the shoulders, pelvis, arms, legs, and feet
- Bone tissue is mainly inorganic minerals and organic protein matrix, and red bone marrow contains blood stem cells while yellow bone marrow is mostly fat cells
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