3. Classify each of the bones in the chart below as either long, short, flat, or irregular by placing a check mark in the appropria column. Also use a check mark to indicate whether the bone is a part of the axial or the appendicular skeleton. Use Figure 8
as a guide.
Long
Short
Flat
Irregular
Axial
skeleton
Appendicular
skeleton
Sternum
to
Radius
Calcaneus (tarsal bone)
Parietal bone (cranial bone)
Phalanx (single bone of a digit)
Vertebra

*a mastectomy is the surgical removal of one or both breasts, either partially of fully. an oophorectomy is the surgical removal of an ovary or ovaries. analyze a woman’s risk of dying of cancer if she carries a mutated brc1 gene. how do heredity and inheritance relate to the data presented in these charts? what data would you need to see in order to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of preventive surgeries? what does the age at diagnosis tell you about the mutation? explain how breast-cancer genes are still present in the population, despite cancer-related surgeries and deaths.