Collagen is a part of the connective tissue that in the skin helps in firmness, suppleness and constant renewal of skin cells. Collagen is vital for skin elasticity. Ligaments are another type of connective tissue that attach two bones and consequently hold the joints together.
There are at least 33 phyla (plural of phylum) of animals. Humans are members of the phylum Chordata. All of the chordates have elongated bilaterally symmetrical bodies. That is to say, the left and right sides are essentially mirror images of each other.
In that system, bacteria are members of the domain Bacteria and phylum is the rank below domain as the rank kingdom is disused at present in bacterial taxonomy.In this classification scheme, Bacteria is (unofficially) subdivided into over 29 phyla with representatives cultured in a lab.any major clades of bacteria that exist but cannot currently be cultured are known solely via metagenomics and are called candidate phyla. If these are included, the number of phyla is 52 or higher. Therefore, the number of major phyla has increased from 12 identifiable lineages in 1987, to 52 as of 2003.