Seeley's Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 6 2025/2026 Exam Questions
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Skeletal system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Four components: bones, cartilage, tendons, and
ligaments
Functions of skeletal system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Support, protection, movement,
storage, and blood cell production
Cartilage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Three types: hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, and
elastic cartilage
Chondroblasts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Produce a matrix surrounding themselves
Chondrocyte - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A chondroblast that is surrounded by matrix
Perichondrium - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A double-layered connective tissue sheath
covering most cartilage
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, Articular cartilage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The cartilage covering the ends of bones
where they come together to form joint; has no perichondrium, blood vessels, or
nerves
Appositional growth - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Chondroblasts in the perichondrium add
new cartilage to the outside edge of the existing cartilage
Interstitial growth - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Process by which the chondrocytes within the
tissue divide and add more matrix between the existing cells
Bone - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Consists of extracellular bone matrix and bone cells
Osteoblasts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bone forming cells, have an extensive endoplasmic
reticulum and numerous ribosomes
Matrix vesicles - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Membrane-bound sacs formed when the plasma
membrane buds, or protrudes outward, and pinches off; released by osteoblasts
Ossification - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The formation of bone by osteoblasts
Osteocyte - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An osteoblast that becomes surrounded by bone
matrix
Osteoclasts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Are responsible for reabsorption, or breakdown, of
bone
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Chapter 6 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Answers | 100% Pass
Skeletal system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Four components: bones, cartilage, tendons, and
ligaments
Functions of skeletal system - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Support, protection, movement,
storage, and blood cell production
Cartilage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Three types: hyaline cartilage, fibrocartilage, and
elastic cartilage
Chondroblasts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Produce a matrix surrounding themselves
Chondrocyte - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A chondroblast that is surrounded by matrix
Perichondrium - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A double-layered connective tissue sheath
covering most cartilage
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, Articular cartilage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The cartilage covering the ends of bones
where they come together to form joint; has no perichondrium, blood vessels, or
nerves
Appositional growth - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Chondroblasts in the perichondrium add
new cartilage to the outside edge of the existing cartilage
Interstitial growth - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Process by which the chondrocytes within the
tissue divide and add more matrix between the existing cells
Bone - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Consists of extracellular bone matrix and bone cells
Osteoblasts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bone forming cells, have an extensive endoplasmic
reticulum and numerous ribosomes
Matrix vesicles - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Membrane-bound sacs formed when the plasma
membrane buds, or protrudes outward, and pinches off; released by osteoblasts
Ossification - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The formation of bone by osteoblasts
Osteocyte - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An osteoblast that becomes surrounded by bone
matrix
Osteoclasts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Are responsible for reabsorption, or breakdown, of
bone
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