In your anatomy and physiology laboratory, you look at prepared slides of developing bone. In the epiphyseal plate region, you note the chondrocytes are slightly enlarged and stacked in a longitudinal array. What epiphyseal plate zone is in your field of view?
a. zone of rest
b. zone of proliferation
c. zone of hypertrophy
d. zone of calcification
c. zone of hypertrophy
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A) sphenoid, ethmoid, maxillae, and mandible B) inferior conchae, vomer, ethmoid, nasal, lacrimals, and sphenoid C) maxillae, palatines, mandible, zygomatics, lacrimals D) frontals, nasals, parietals, and occipital E) None of the answers are correct.
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A. 900 B. 1200 C. 600 D. 800 E. 400
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