The process of taking calcium from what we eat or drink and depositing it into cartilage to form bone is called what?

Health · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020

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the process is called Endochondral ossification where it involves the replacement of cartilage into bony tissue. Most of the bones of the skeleton are formed in this manner. These bones are called endochondral bones. In this process, the future bones are first formed as hyaline cartilage models.