Explain the importance of the Integumentary System (skin and all it's derivatives) to bone formation:?
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Both the systems are different.Ther is no direct connection between both these two systems\nBut one important thing that is VIT  D .It is most important for bone growth and density of calcium in the bones.VIT D can be actively produced by the body in the presence of ultraviolet rays from sun. and vit D it goes in to blood stream and promote the bone growth.Nothing more than that
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Vitamin A is your most important vitamin for the skin. A serious lack or excess intake can cause dry, rough skin, among other problems.\n\nVitamin C plays an important role in healing wounds in the skin and in preventing scurvy. Applying topical vitamin C will help "rejuvenate" the skin and make it appear younger by activating the oxidizing influences to which the skin is subjected.\n\nVitamin D is absorbed through the skin and is considered to be an antioxidant and anticarcinogen, and may play a role in skin pigmentation. It is toxic in large amounts, therefore, avoid megadoses. But sunbathing will not result in toxicity, but can lead to melanoma.\n\nVitamin E is an antioxidant. It can help prevent free radical damage. Based on the observation that skin damage caused by the sun and other environmental agents are induced by free radicals, there is the possibility that vitamin E may be effective in preventing skin damage.
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Here's an answer that wasn't copied and pasted from somewhere on the net...\n\nLong bones, which are the bones of your arms and legs, can be broken into two regions. The "knobs" located at both ends of the bone are called the epiphyses. The long, narrow portion of the bone is called the diaphysis. Located at each end of the bone between the epiphysis and diaphysis is a region called the epiphyseal plate.\n\nThe epiphyseal plate is more commonly referred to as the "growth plate". In a growing human, the epiphyseal plate contains many chondrocytes. The chondrocytes produce chondrin, which is the material that composes cartlidge. This new cartilidge lengthens the bone. Osteoblasts then convert this newly formed cartlidge into bone.\n\nIn adult humans who have finished growing, the epiphyseal plate has been completely replaced by solid bone. A quick x-ray can therefore determine whether an adult human has finished growing by the presence or absence of the epiphyseal plate.\n\nChondrocytes are also located in other parts of the body where cartlidge is present, like the nose, ears, larynx, trachea, and skeletal joints.
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Neither.\nThey are composed largely of keratin, very closely related to the keratin found in skin.  They are made up of cells, but living ones, not dead.
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Because to keep your bones healthy, you need to bare weight on them. Since you are essentially weightless, prolonged time in space would cause the bone matrix to start to break down and become "brittle" over time.
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The human body contains 206 bones!\n\nThe human skeleton is made of individual or joined bones (such as the skull), supported and supplemented by a structure of ligaments, tendons, muscles, cartilage and other organs.\n\nThe skeleton is not unchanging; it changes composition over a lifespan. Early in gestation, a fetus has no hard skeleton; bones form gradually during nine months in the womb. At birth, all bones will have formed, but a newborn baby has more bones than an adult. On average, an adult human has 206 bones (according to Gray's Anatomy, but the number can vary slightly from individual to individual), but a baby is born with approximately 300 bones. The difference comes from a number of small bones that fuse together during growth, such as the sacrum and coccyx of the vertebral column. An infant is born with pockets of cartilage between particular bones to allow further growth. The sacrum (the bone at the base of the spine) consists of five bones which are separated at birth but fuse together into a solid structure in later years. Growing is usually completed between ages 12 and 14, at which point the bones have no pockets of cartilage left to allow more growth.\n\nNot all bones are interconnected directly. There are 6 bones, the auditory ossicles (three on each side), in the middle ear that articulate only with each other. Another bone, the hyoid bone in the neck, does not touch any other bones in the body, and is supported by muscles and ligaments; it serves as the point of attachment for the tongue.Also some of the ribs called the floating ribs only hang by Muscle and are not attached to the spine.\n\nThe longest and heaviest bone in the body is the femur and the smallest is the stapes bone in the middle ear. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 20% of the total body weight.
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Bone is a relatively hard and lightweight composite material, formed mostly of calcium phosphate in the chemical arrangement termed calcium hydroxyapatite. It has relatively high compressive strength but poor tensile strength. While bone is essentially brittle, it does have a degree of significant elasticity contributed by its organic components (chiefly collagen). Bone has an internal mesh-like structure, the density of which may vary at different points.
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homeostasis is the underlying theme of all of nature and IMPLIES interdependence.  Most current anatomy-physiology textbooks FINALLY list how each system affects all the other systems of the body.  We use Tortora and Dickerson and the last page of each chapter itemizes all this.  Very helpful to teach the interconnectedness of the systems, yes, but also all of life-the cosmos.  It's all connected and interdependent from micro sub-atomic particles to macro galaxies and cosmos.
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The bone has five main functions:\n\n1. Support \nThat's about everything just covered above \n2. Protection \nThey keep organs away from damage, such as the rib cage and the skull. \n3. Movement \nThat's covered above, also. \n4. Storage \nThe bone stores fat and some minerals. \n5. Blood cell formation \nThe bone is the place that most of your blood components are made.
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The growth plates of bones located at the ends grow with age, and start their life as cartilage. This way, bones can lenghthen from infancy into late adolesence. With age, calcium begins accumulating in the growth plates to fuse the epiphyses (the ends of the bones) and thus turn into bone. Not all cartilage calcifies though (ears, nose, etc.), only the parts associated with growth.
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The skeletal system of an organism is what gives it structure and form, and holds internal organs.
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To understand hairs,we should see the formation of hairs first.These are the dead cell proteins formed in capilarry forms like bio-nanomaterials and carry the unwanted inorganic or surplus salts and radicals out of our body to finish their reentry in system or to throw them out.These are more at soft skin places as it is easy for them to protude there and at hard skin they cannot come out and take shapes of dead skin/hard skin.
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You may be thinking of homeobox genes. These genes are crucial to early development and have been greatly conserved between groups of organisms. The genes tell the embryo what the basic body plan is. If there's a homebox mutation, you may end up with three arms or a leg where an arm goes, etc. These genes are very important but they aren't the only ones and I'm not sure you could say that any genes are "dedicated to protecting the substance of each biological life form."
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The human skeleton is made of individual or joined bones (such as the skull), supported and supplemented by a structure of ligaments, tendons, muscles, cartilage and other organs.\n\nThe skeleton is not unchanging; it changes composition over a lifespan. Early in gestation, a fetus has no hard skeleton; bones form gradually during nine months in the womb. At birth, all bones will have formed, but a newborn baby has more bones than an adult. On average, an adult human has 206 bones (according to Gray's Anatomy, but the number can vary slightly from individual to individual), but a baby is born with approximately 300 bones. The difference comes from a number of small bones that fuse together during growth, such as the sacrum and coccyx of the vertebral column. An infant is born with pockets of cartilage between particular bones to allow further growth. The sacrum (the bone at the base of the spine) consists of five bones which are separated at birth but fuse together into a solid structure in later years. Growing is usually completed between ages 13 and 18, at which point the bones have no pockets of cartilage left to allow more growth.\n\nNot all bones are interconnected directly. There are 6 bones, the auditory ossicles (three on each side), in the middle ear that articulate only with each other. Another bone, the hyoid bone in the neck, does not touch any other bones in the body, and is supported by muscles and ligaments; it serves as the point of attachment for the tongue.Also some of the ribs called the floating ribs only hang by muscle and are not attached to the spine.\n\nThe longest and heaviest bone in the body is the femur and the smallest is the stapes bone in the middle ear. In an adult, the skeleton comprises around 20% of the total body weight.\n\nBones of the Head\n\n    * frontal bone\n    * mandible\n    * maxilla\n    * occiptal bone\n    * parietal bone\n    * temporal bone\n    * zygomatic bone \n\nBones of the Neck and Chest\n\n    * acromion\n    * atlas\n    * cervical vertebra\n    * clavicle\n    * false rib\n    * floating rib\n    * scapula\n    * spine of scapula\n    * sternum\n    * thoracic vertebra\n    * vertibral column \n\nBones of the Abdomen\n\n    * coccyx\n    * ilium\n    * ischium\n    * lumbar vertebra\n    * sacrum\n    * vertibral column \n\nBones of the Arm\n\n    * carpus (carpals)\n    * epicondyle\n    * epitrochlea\n    * head of humerus\n    * humerus\n    * metacarpus (metacarpals)\n    * olecranon\n    * phalanx (phalanges)\n    * radius\n    * ulna \n\nBones of the Leg\n\n    * calcaneus\n    * condyle of femur\n    * femur\n    * fibula\n    * head of femur\n    * metatarsus (metatarsals)\n    * neck of femur\n    * patella\n    * phalanx (phalanges)\n    * talus\n    * tarsus (tarsals)\n    * tibia
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Cells have what is called an extracellular matrix, which includes proteins that anchor everything togteher (things like collagen and elastin, etc.).
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Skin is the largest organ on your body.\nMakes sense to take care of it right?\nMany things enter the body through the skin.\nSun, chemicals etc\nMany toxins exit the body through the skin in the form of sweat.\nTaking care of you skin is important.\nKeeps down odor.  Keeps the skin supple and healthy.
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In biology, an organ (Latin: organum, "instrument, tool") is a group of tissues that perform a specific function or group of functions. Usually there is a main tissue and sporadic tissues. The main tissue is the one that is unique for the specific organ. For example, main tissue in the heart is the myocardium, while sporadic are the nervous, blood, connective etc. (Wikipedia.org)\n\nIn zootomy and dermatology, skin is an organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of epithelial tissues that guard underlying muscles and organs. As the interface with the surroundings, it plays the most important role in protecting against pathogens. Its other main functions are insulation and temperature regulation, sensation and vitamin D and B synthesis. Skin is considered one of the most important parts of the body.(Wikipedia.org)\n\nPretty much the skin is considered an organ because it is a group of tissues speciallizing in a certain task / tasks. For example the skin regulates temperature by using the sweat glands to produce sweat - sweat evaporates and cools the body.