What are phalanges? Is it the toes or fingers?
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It is both.  It is a name for the bones at the end of your extremities (arms and legs)
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Medical terminology: \nposterior or dorsal is the back of the hand,\nanterior or palmar is the palm of the hand,\nmetacarpals describes the bones within the hand (or foot),\nphalanges describes the bones of the fingers/toes (or digits.)\n\nIn veterinary terminology, it's the same except for the use of posterior/anterior, which are not often used in veterinary medicine, and in animals palmar (or plantar for hind legs) extends up to the back of the knee (or hock.)\n\nLeila\n(former vet tech, current doula)
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Radius and Ulna in the arm, Carpels and Meta Carples in the wrist.  Fingers are Phalanges
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A fingernail is produced by living skin cells in the finger. A fingernail consists of several parts including the nail plate (the visible part of the nail), the nail bed (the skin beneath the nail plate), the cuticle (the tissue that overlaps the plate and rims the base of the nail), the nail folds (the skin folds that frame and support the nail on three sides), the lunula (the whitish half-moon at the base of the nail) and the matrix (the hidden part of the nail unit under the cuticle). \n\nFingernails grow from the matrix. The nails are composed largely of keratin, a hardened protein (that is also in skin and hair). As new cells grow in the matrix, the older cells are pushed out, compacted and take on the familiar flattened, hardened form of the fingernail. \n\nThe average growth rate for nails is 0.1 mm each day (or 1 centimeter in 100 days). The exact rate of nail growth depends on numerous factors including the age and sex of the individual and the time of year. Fingernails generally grow faster in young people, in males, and in the summer. \n\nFingernails grow faster than toenails. The fingernails on the right hand of a righthanded person grow faster than those on their left hand, and vice versa.
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"Balance" isn't much of an explanation.  Why is a big toe better than a small toe?  If big toes produced better balance, then why does it help to have it on the inside, rather than the center of the foot or the outside?  Why not 5 big toes on each foot?\n\nA better explanation is that it is an evolutionary throwback to the "thumb" on the foot of primates.  A lot of the internal bone structures, muscles, ligaments, and nerves of the foot provide further evidence.  Four examples (among many):\n\nFact 1: Look at your hand.  Notice that you have one fewer bone (one fewer joint) in your thumb than in your other fingers.  The same is true in your foot (see picture of foot bones in Source 1) ... your big toe has one fewer bone (one fewer joint) that your other toes .  And the same holds with all primate hands and feet.  Your big toe is a re-purposed "thumb".\n\nFact 2: There is a vestigial muscle in the calf of humans, called the 'plantaris' muscle.  (See source 2.)  It is completely useless in humans ... in fact it is so useless that it is a favorite to be harvested by surgeons needing tissue for reconstructive surgery (like heart surgery), and in fact 9% of humans are born without any plantaris muscle at all.  However, the same muscle is very important in other primates, as it is what lets them flex and oppose the large inside digit of the foot, to allow GRASPING WITH THE FEET.\n\nFact 3: Why is your thumb fatter than your other fingers?  Because it needs to be stronger than the other fingers to be opposable for grasping.  That is the reason the big toe is fatter  than the other toes.  It had to be fatter because it was once used for grasping.\n\nFact 4: Wiggle your toes.  Notice that you can wiggle your big toe independently of your other toes ... but it's very dificult to wiggle any other toe by itself (some people can wiggle their pinkie toe by itself).  The reason for this is that there are more nerves and muscles dedicated to the big toe than to your other toes ... again, evidence that the big toe was once used for grasping.\n\nYes, the human big toe (once we became ground walkers, and no longer grasped things with our feet) has moved forward help the other toes produce better balance when walking upright ... but that doesn't explain why there was a big toe in the first place.
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Well, I assume you know about finger bones, so I won't go into that...\n\nImagine if you will, right above your elbow, a cluster of muscles with bands of ligament running from them to your fingers.\n\n(extensor digitorum lateralis, extensor digitorum communis, etc)\n\nYou move your fingers, you feel something right in your arm, distal of your elbow, yes?\n\nThose are the muscles that 'pull' if you will, your tendons that run into your digits (fingers).\n\nFlex muscle, pull tendon, finger bends.\n\nI hope this helps,\nGood luck on your project!\n-William
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The natural number of human fingers is 10
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In a single hand, there are 5 phalanges, and 5 meta phalanges. \n\nI hope this helps!
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Fingers are on hands, and toes are on feet.
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Actually, humans DO HAVE 4 fingers (and one thumb).
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I don't know in order but.. Bicep,tricep(muscles), elbow,ulna, wrist,meta carpals, carpals, phalanges(bones) I'm sure there are more.
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How many toes do you have?
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Have a look at the limbs of a lizard.  Not too unlike ours - has all the same sections in the same places.  Some even have five "fingers".  \n\nWhen mammals came along they took the format much further - creating ungulates with two toes, horses with one, dogs with four and a dew claw.  \n\nEven whales have the skeletal bones of hands in their pectoral fins.  \n\nLemurs are supposedly more primitive than monkeys and apes, but go see them at a zoo.  I was lucky enough to hand feed one, and it has hands remarkably like a tiny human.  It was unreal.  \n\nThe format has changed constantly, built on a vertibrate format developed initially by fish.
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Yes. The bones in your toes and fingers are called phalanges. Your pinky toe has 3 bones.  (The thumb and big toe have two phalanges, while the other fingers and toes consist of three.). You may be able to look it up in a reference book if you need more details.
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Every fingers has different functions.\nYou have choices of using your fingers.\nArts of human.
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In addition to the good answers you already have, there are also some arboreal frogs with opposable thumbs. The Phyllomedusa leaf-frogs are known as "monkey frogs" because of this feature:\nhttp://www.mongabay.com/images/peru/tambopata/Tambopata_1026_3848a.jpg\n\nMonkeys (order Primates) have opposable thumbs (not only in their hands but also opposable big toes in their feet, we're an exception). And the pandas have an opposable "pseudo thumb" that is really one of the bones of the wrist.
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left hand finger next to pinkie