Number of bones in the skull:
Correct answer: A. 22
- A. 22
- B. 26
- C. 24
- D. 28
Explanation
The human skull is composed of 22 bones. These bones include 14 facial bones (a pair of maxilla, mandible, vomer, nasal, a pair of zygomatic, a pair of conchae, a pair of lacrimal and a pair of palatine) and 8 cranial bones (frontal, a pair of parietal, a pair of temporal, occipital, sphenoid and ethmoid.) As per the NUMS answer key 22 is the correct answer. The skull has 22 bones the 6 earbones are not included in the skull bones.
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