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Joints allow bones to move relative to one another. Fusion increases stability but reduces or eliminates mobility at that point.
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The vertebrate skull protects the brain and important sensory organs. Skeletons provide both support and protection of delicate organs.
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Earthworms use segmental muscles and coelomic fluid to extend, anchor, and pull the body through soil. This is hydrostatic locomotion.
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Fins help generate thrust, steering, and stability in water. They work with the muscular and skeletal systems to control aquatic movement.
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Many fishes swim through lateral waves produced by axial muscles acting on the vertebral column. This converts muscular contractions into forward movement.
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The rib cage protects the heart and lungs. Damage can threaten breathing and circulation because these organs lie within the thoracic cavity.
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Chitin is a tough polysaccharide found in arthropod exoskeletons and fungal walls. Bone is living connective tissue mineralized with calcium salts.
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Cartilage provides flexible support in joints, nose, ears, and early vertebrate skeletons. It resists compression while allowing shape and movement.
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A rigid external skeleton restricts growth. Arthropods solve this by molting the old cuticle and expanding before the new one hardens.
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Ciliary beating can move the whole organism or generate water currents for feeding and respiration. In small aquatic forms, this is an efficient non-muscular mechanism.
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Comparative anatomy links structure with function. Skeletons differ because animals face different demands such as swimming, jumping, flying, burrowing, or protection.
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Sharks and rays have skeletons largely made of cartilage. This gives flexible support and differs from the ossified skeleton of bony fishes.
