How does the growth plate (cartilage and calcium) make the 'bone' grow?

Subject: How does the growth plate (cartilage and calcium) make the 'bone' grow?

Date: Sun Jul 8 06:05:12 2007
Posted by Kristina McLean
Grade level: 10-12 School: Shavnigton High
City: No city entered. State/Province: cheshire Country: England
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 1183899912.Gb

Message:


I take part in a BTEC sports programme and was told by my sports teacher that a 
babies bone starts off as just cartilage with the tinnyest strip of growth 
plate. When the baby first has milk the calcium causes the growth plate to form 
properly and then makes bone grow out of the formation of: cartilage, 
calcium and growth plate. This is called ossifcation, but is it completely true?

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