Bony matrix is solidly filled with organic ground substance and inorganic salts, leaving only tiny spaces (lacunae) that contain the osteocytes, or bone<span> cells</span>
Answer:
births - deaths = growth
Explanation:
(births - deaths) + (immigrants - emmigrants) is what you would normally use to calculate the growth of a population, but because they can't move, you can cut out the immigrant and emmigrant part of the equation.