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one advantage about having a backbone is you can stand up straight or you can get out of your chair one disadvantage is you can break it and

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One advantage is that you can bind over and you can stand up straight if you have a back bone

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One advanages is you can stand up straight and one disavantage  you would not be able to stand straight.

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one advantage is it helps you stand up straight and, one disadvantage  is it can break.

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one advantage about having a backbone is your back will be straight but one disadvantage about having a backbone is that you can't bend as far.

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One advantage of having a back bone is you can stand up straight and also bend One disadvantage is you cant bend your back

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one advantage of a vertabrate is that you can stand up straight and it is stronger.  A disadvantage is that it can break and lead to other injuries.

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One advantage it that you can stand straight and take more weight like if you didn't have a backbone you couldn't hold anything like a book on your head.
One disadvantage is that you would always be flopped one way or the other,you wouldn't be able to stand straight.

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Your backbone is very important for many different movements. Think about it, you wouldn't be able to get out of bed if you couldn't bend  your a little bit and you wouldn't be able to bend over. Your backbone is very useful but it has it's disadvantages. For example you can break your back bone and if you do your legs will become paralyzed.

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Posted in Animals, Biology, Nature, Wildlife on Saturday, 28 January 2012

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This edited article about animals originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 618 published on 17 November 1973.

If you stop and think about all the different movements you make with your body every day, you will begin to realise just how important your backbone is.

Think of all the actions you perform by bending your back. You would find it very difficult, for example, to sit up in bed without bending your back slightly, and you certainly would not be able to bend down and touch your toes without the help of your backbone.

All animals which have backbones or vertebral columns, are called vertebrates. The word "backbone" is, in fact, rather misleading, because it is not one long bone that runs down our backs, but a series of independent bones, irregular in shape and firmly connected to one another. Each bone is capable of a limited amount of movement which enables the backbone to be bent in various ways.

Movement is a very important function of the backbone, but there is another vital job which it has to carry out.

Every bone of the vertebral column has a hole running through it and through these holes runs the spinal cord which is a vitally important part of our body, because it is by means of the spinal cord that our nervous system works. Messages from all parts of the body are sent through the spinal cord to the brain. So, without a spinal cord we could not speak, move or perform any actions at all, and it is the function of the backbone to protect this spinal cord. In humans, the backbone must also support the weight of the trunk.

The different types of bones which make up the vertebral column are grouped under different names, according to the region of the body in which they lie. The thoracic bones, for example, lie in the chest region, the cervical in the neck, and so on. But all these vertebrae, or bones, conform to a general plan. Although at first sight, there may be little resemblance between the neck of a man and those of a giraffe or a shark, all the essential characteristics of the backbones of these animals will be found to be identical.

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The advantages of having a versatile backbone

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Posted in Animals, Biology, Nature, Wildlife on Saturday, 28 January 2012 Click on any image for details about licensing for commercial or personal use. This edited article about animals originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 618 published on 17 November 1973.

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Advantage: A advantage is it helps you not hurt your back.

Disadvantage: A disadvantage is  a risk of it hurting or snapping.

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A advantage  of having a backbone is that you can bend your back. A disadvantage is that you can't bend your back.

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one advantage of having a backbone is that you body will  be able sit or bend more properly
one disadvantage is you would move like a jellyfish (wiggley)

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A disadvantage is if it brakes you could be paralyzed. One advantage is it helps support your back.

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An advantage of a backbone is that you can bend it. but a disadvantage is that you could break it.An advantage of not having a back bone is that you can not break your backbone but a disadvantage is that you can move as easily and you cant bend really.

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An advantage of a backbone is that you can bend and your spinal cord without breaking it. A disadvantage is that if you break it then you will be paralyzed.

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Advantage:

Disadvantage:bend it to much you can brake your spinal cord

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Advantage: you can sit up strait
Disadvantige: you cant go in tight places unless you are small