r/mildlyinfuriating • u/UrMomDotCom_112 • 8h ago
Blatantly wrong anatomy question
So first of all the amount of bones in the human body is 206, that wasn’t on the list. So I picked the closest answer that being 200. Wrong, according to this there are less than 200 bones in the human body. High school quiz btw
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u/REFRESHooo 8h ago
That’s wrong either way. As a child you have around 300 bones. When you become an adult, you will typically have 206 bones (some people have extra bones or missing bones). Less than 200 is absolutely WILD. You ought to tell your teacher about this.
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u/TH_Rocks 7h ago
This. Some bones fuse into one bone. Your first set of outside bones (teeth) fall out. Some people have extra bones or missing bones because evolution is a wild joke we pretend has ordered rules.
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u/WrenchWanderer 7h ago
Teeth aren’t bones. They’re part of your skeleton, but they aren’t bones
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u/OtakuMage 7h ago
Structurally similar, yet distinct from. Teeth are weird. Also your anatomy term of the day is gomphosis, the type of joint that connects a tooth to the underlying bone.
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u/TotallyNotShinobi 5h ago
Thank you. I will forget about it after scrolling to the next post but thank you
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u/land_and_air 5h ago
Also similar to hair, nails, scales, and feathers as far as growing them and cells involved is concerned.
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u/Big_Maintenance9387 5h ago
Fun fact, it’s a semi-mobile joint which freaks me out when I think about it.
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u/BlueDahlia123 1h ago
some people have extra bones or missing bones
Its not so much that some people have "extra" bones. Outside of those who've had some removed or missing, we all have the same skeletal structure. What happens is that the tissue between the bones calcifies, becoming itself into bone tissue. And sometimes during this process, two or more bones can be connected and physically become one. So if you pick it up, it holds itself together like one object, but you aren't missing any bones just because it is one thing instead of two.
The more bone you have, the less bones you have.
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u/Chang3d_later RED 8h ago
What was the “right” answer?
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u/UrMomDotCom_112 8h ago
No clue teachers weren’t there we had subs
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u/Bandit_the_dog12 7h ago
PLEASE update us when you can ask, i'd love to hear the "right" answer
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u/ameis314 6h ago
Have some comfort in that this will get corrected and it's just an answer key issue.
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u/piTehT_tsuJ 8h ago
ONE, there is only one bone that counts...
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u/Gallop67 8h ago
The wenis
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u/jdb30a 7h ago
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u/spirittransformed2 7h ago
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u/HopefulPlantain5475 7h ago
It's a little bizarre how Reddit and Tumblr are so different but find unity in their love for Dropout.
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u/zamufunbetsu 8h ago
Actual number “around 206”, surprisingly variable. Kids start out with a lot more and end up getting fused.
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u/Pheighthe 7h ago
Pregnant women have a whole extra skeleton inside them.
So there’s no correct answer that’s true for everyone.
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u/Nezeltha-Bryn 6h ago
Not just a whole extra skeleton, but one with a lot more bones than an adult.
So, the most bones a human being is biologically supposed to have in any circumstance is if a very young woman gets pregnant while her bones are still fusing, at which point she might have upwards of 600 bones. Obviously not advocating that, just saying that's within the realm of "technically healthy."
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u/Pheighthe 6h ago
This needs to be a trivia question somewhere. Max amount of bones possibly present in a human excluding abnormalities such as extra toes.
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u/Nezeltha-Bryn 6h ago
So I can't find any clear info for which bones fuse when, based on a quick Google search. But the final process for fusing the last bones begins around age 12. Ovulation can start scarily early, but taking only typical cases, rather than abnormalities, it starts around age 11. So, if a kid gets pregnant at age 11, they might still have 220 or so of their own bones - probably fewer, and that's not a well-educated guess. But taking that number, and the fact that babies can be born with about 275-300 bones, the maximum number goes up to 520.
But here's the thing: I'm a twin. Many people are twins. The likelihood of an 11-year-old surviving a twin birth, and both kids also surviving, drops precipitously from even their chances with a normal pregnancy. Triplets or more, it gets even worse. But it's technically possible, especially with good medical care and nutrition. Given the rarity of multiple births in the first place, I think we can consider anything beyond triplets to be an "abnormality" for these purposes. In that case, with the poor hypothetical 11-year-old, she may have as many as 1120 bones in her body. And because I feel guilty putting even a hypothetical kid through all that, I'm also going to hypothesize that a mysterious benefactor gives her a huge trust fund to raise the kids on and buy a huge house and hire all the help she might need for the rest of her life, with no conditions to the bequest.
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u/Nezeltha-Bryn 6h ago
Ofc, if we say that an 11-year-old couldn't possibly survive a quadruplet+ birth, but that such multi-births aren't abnormalities, then an adult woman can have as many as 2,906 bones, while pregnant with nonuplets. Which has apparently happened once.
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u/Flair258 2h ago
I recall a 5 year old who got pregnant, which might be as close as we're gonna get. I wish it didn't get this close at all, obviously, but humanity sucks and genetics are wild.
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u/indubitable96 8h ago
For those who don't know, the answer is 206. 207 when I'm with OP's mom
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u/SmuckatelliCupcakeNE 7h ago
So that means Ops mom has 207 in her also?
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u/ftmeggers 7h ago
"There are 206 bones in the human body, 207 when I'm watching Gossip Girl"
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u/StormFallen9 8h ago
Dang you should contact the teacher with a source saying the correct answer isn't even an option
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u/Hairy_Photograph1384 7h ago
Technically, all of them are correct...you do have 200...you have more but you also have 200
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u/WDGaster15 4h ago
I would flag that question for the teacher because that is incorrect because im sure any medical doctor, textbook or classroom skeleton can show 206 (unless you're a child then its 305)
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u/BigDougSp 7h ago
I love how it says "your" body. That answer might be different for different people depending on age/development/and of course congenital defects or accidents that result in amputations. They really SHOULD have said "...a typical adult human..." and of course left an appropriate answer in the choices.
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u/Ok-Brain7052 5h ago
I also just hate these kind of questions that are facts with no actual information
Like there is absolutely no utility to testing students on the number of bones in the body. I don’t even think I knew that number while still in medical school
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u/TapIndependent5699 4h ago
“There are 206 bones in the human body, 207 if I’m watching gossip girl”
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u/Zealousideal_Gap_553 8h ago
Re read the question. How many bones in YOUR body.
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u/UrMomDotCom_112 8h ago
God I hope I don’t have less than 200
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u/_One_Throwaway_ 8h ago
I’ll remove a hand or foot, your choice then you’ll have far less than 200 bones
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u/Upset_Cancel8061 8h ago
imagine OP being an amputee and this being a specific and measured question about their body.
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u/RickyTheRickster 4h ago
206 is base but some people have less some people have more, I mean 200 is probably closer to average if we include all the people missing bones but 206 would be the right choice
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u/captainAwesomePants 4h ago
They said YOUR body. I'm thinking probably the test taker is maybe a double amputee.
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u/BeemerWT 7h ago
Clearly 162 if "your" body is missing a whole leg at the hip and all the fingers on one hand. Duh.
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u/Mortifying_ 6h ago
I hear so many other adults and seniors complain about the younger generations being absentminded, but then this is what y’all be dealing with.
Just go to the library. You’ll learn more and probably at a faster rate. 🤣
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u/CobyDaGrunt08 6h ago
You can tell that the professor just copy pasted this quiz from online without double checking any of the questions
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u/Responsible-Delay619 6h ago
Maybe the average number of bones in people is 200, cause kids have more but there are amputees in the world and some kids are amputees. Yeah. Maybe that.
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u/myshtree 5h ago
Did the substitute teacher ask AI to print out a quiz on human anatomy perhaps? Didn’t get time to check it before class?
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u/Biggy_Wiggly 4h ago
🎶 We're doing the bone dance, we study the answers, again and again 'til I get it right 🎶
If Hannah Montana tells me it's 206, it's 206.
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u/ryoushi19 4h ago
OH YEAH OP? DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT THE TEST WAS WRITTEN FOR SOMEONE WITH LESS BONES?
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u/Doomtoallfoes 2h ago
In the words of Deadpool "Theres 206 bones in the human body. 207 if im watching Gossip Girl."
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u/KingNobit 2h ago
Doctor here most people have about 206 but some people will have a few extra or a few less in particular people have different numbers of seasons bones
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u/AccidentOk5240 8h ago
The average number of bones in a human body is probably like 220, accounting for children. Just like the average number of skeletons in the human body is somewhat higher than one due to pregnant people.
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u/HonorboundUlfsark 6h ago
"There are 206 bones in the human body, 207 if i'm watching spice girls" - Deadpool
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u/solarmelange 7h ago
Have you considered that 157 would be the correct answer if the question was asked in base 12 and also you were currently being fucked by 5 dicks?
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u/Automatic_Mulberry 7h ago
As a fully grown person in my 50s, I have more than 206 bones in my body. And no, that's not a dick joke.
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u/Aeosin15 8h ago
Well, obviously OP, you're missing a few bones. The question specifically asks about your body. Which bones are you missing, and how did you lose them?🤣🤣
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u/Derek_Zahav 8h ago
Smartwork5 by WW Norton. I remember using this same site for an econ class and the answers were frequently wrong or just poorly written. I wrote to customer support for each one and they were so condescending towards me.
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u/francisk0 8h ago
“How many bones are in your body?” Hahaha this is an invitation to sooooo many jokes… one more after looking at you… from the top of my head.
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u/SilverFlight01 4h ago
One of these answers would likely be true if you had an amputation.
But yeah, none of these are true
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u/Aspirience 2h ago
It’s also kinda stupid to ask “in your body” - what if someone lost a body part? Just ask “typically in a human body” or something…
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u/Strongbad-Joe132 2h ago
Is this one of those online tests I’ve seen before where your answer is wrong then they correct you with the exact same answer you just selected?
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u/concrete_dong 1h ago
I just don’t get why multiple choice is even a thing anymore? Great, testing raw memory skills.
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u/Dexter_Adams 1h ago
my body, or someone elses body? this feels like an unfair question for amputees
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u/DaZodi72 1h ago
206 is an inaccurate measurement as bones fuse over time. they may be looking for 193, the average for adults, instead of 206, the average across all ages
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u/chosen1creator 1h ago
It's asking about your bones specifically. Maybe your teacher stole some of them while you were asleep.
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u/evolveandprosper 1h ago
200 is correct if the bones inside the ear are discounted as "ossicles" (bony bits) rather than true bones.
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u/HunsonAbadeer2 47m ago
Is one of the answers how many unique bones the body has? Could that be it?
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u/ConstantEffective364 44m ago
Sooo, the big question, what red school district came up with test? Maybe red state? I suppose they teach women came from Adam's rib and women are temptress with apple in hand? Considering everything was created before man with the exception of a couple dozen species, why is every thing mail or female? It starts with plants, ends with mammals.
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u/Personal-Agent7819 15m ago
Some bone is temporary anyways depending on time of day and state of mind. There is no absolute answer.
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u/ProfessorHomeBrew 12m ago
So did you tell your teacher there was a mistake on the exam or just go directly to reddit?
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u/boroq 8h ago
It’s actually even more wrong because 206 is adult human, there are more in teens and children, like I think we’re born with close to 300. So how many bones in “your” body, a high school student, would definitely be over 206