Jana is 17 years old and 172 cm tall. She plays basketball and hopes to grow at least 4 cm more before she turns 18 and goes to college. Jana recently injured her leg, and her doctor took an X-ray of it. Based on the X-ray, the doctor determined that Jana had reached skeletal maturity. How much taller is Jana likely to grow? Explain your answer.

She will not grow taller anymore as she is done growing due to the fact that her body showed she had matures

Explanation:

Bones are simpy the hard structures in the human body. the skeleton is known as the framework of the body which is made up of cartilage. soft cartilage of the skeletonin a slow process turns into hard bone by ossification.

By birth, different areas of cartilage remain in the skeleton as well as growth plates at the ends of the long bones. This cartilage grows as the long bones grow and this in turn keep increasing in length in course of our childhood. whereas in late teens or early twenties, a person reaches skeletal maturity which means that all of the cartilage has been replaced by bone, so no further growth in bone length is possible and the bones can still increase in thickness.

She's not going to grow taller

Explanation:

Sekeletal maturity is a situation where by the bone can no longer grow again. It is reached at about age 20

Jana is not likely to grow because she's no longer within the growing age.

Her body had reached a skeleton maturity, it shows that she is matured already and her bones are not growing or expanding.