WASSCE Biology · Animal Body Systems
Support in Plants and Animals
How plants stay upright, how animals are supported by skeletons, and types of skeletal systems.
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- 1Support in plants and animals: structural principles15 minFree15 minFree
- 2Support in plants and animals: the mammalian skeleton16 min Plan16 min Plan
- Functions of the mammalian skeleton
- Main divisions of the human skeleton
- Bone and cartilage
- Joints
- How movement occurs at a joint
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