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Skeleton which is composition of rib cage, skull, and vertebral column is known as


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axial skeleton

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appendicular skeleton

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perpendicular skeleton

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transcription skeleton

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The correct option is A

axial skeleton


The axial skeleton is the part of the skeleton that consists of the bones of the head and trunk of a vertebrate. In the human skeleton, it consists of 80 bones and is composed of six parts; the skull bones, the ossicles of the middle ear, the hyoid bone, the rib cage, sternum and the vertebral column.

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