Biology 2e
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Chapter 38, Problem 14RQ
While assembling a skeleton of a new species, a scientist points to one of the bones and observes that it looks like the most likely site of leg muscle attachment. What kind of bone did she indicate?
- sesamoid bone
- long bone
- trabecular bone
- flat bone
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