Have you ever dissected an animal? [like in biology class?]

Re: Have you ever dissected an animal? [like in biology clas

Awww, I used to have a pet frog in my garden. His name was...well...Froggy. It must have died because it hopped away somehow.

 

Re: Have you ever dissected an animal? [like in biology clas

It cat was for Anatomy and Physiology. They gave us the pig because it was the animal that had the organs that resembled humans.

It's all gonna pay off once I become CSI

 

Oh hey everybody !!! cool thread.
Well I love dissection.
I have dissected frogs, squirrels, and earthworms.
It's fun...just I don't like touching the frog's skin and the smell of formaline.
I don't like dissecting female frogs though..because of the ovaries...it's gross and interfers while exploring the antanomical parts.
And I'm good in preparing slides.
I love practical classes.

 

I forgot about the worm that I dissected. It was so nasty.

It was in 7th grade and our science teacher, Mrs Johnson told us to be careful because some of the chemicals could squirt out of the worm and get into your eye. Well, I was cutting the worm and one of the organs was filled with that chemical and it busted. The chemical got in my eye and ut burned so bad

 

When I was in school we didn't get to disect anything at all! And out of school I don't recall carrying out any of my own little dissecting experiments.

 

Oh I think I know what you're talking about.
To make the skin of the worm translucent, it has to be kept in a 5% or 10% of Potassium Hydroxide solution inside a test tube and heat till it turns translucent.
At that time, when you constantly heat it, the solution bursts out(the solution can even burns cloths, so it has to be done carefully). That's why, while doing the experiments, I always used to sit at the edge of my desk and face the opening of the test tube away from my face. Most of the time, we either used to overheat it or underheat the skin.

Well we didn't study in detail. We just checked out the setae(ie the locomotary organs), the ventral nerve and the ganglia. We used to be given formaline preserved specimen, so its internal organs always used to be already destroyed.

But man, I never got a decent frog or squirrel while doing the experiments. Always formaline damaged or manhandled(lol) frong...hehe. Nevertheless...I was good in practical classes, heh(the ones I remember...lol).


PS- Sorry I'll stop my rambling now. Ignore it ignore it... I just got taken away, heh.

 

Wow a sqirrel? thats weird

 

Yeah...well chipmonks most of the time. Sometimes, squirrels though.

I never got to dissect a piggy *punches the pillow.* Would have loved it.

 

wow lol a pig, that would take a while

 

It was a small fetal pig. It took 2 days and my teacher thought that I was doing a good job and he wanted me to take out some of the main organs. He mainly wanted the brain, it was so gross.

 

a fetal pig?
That is gross!!
I could never do that....

 

It wasn't that bad, the grasshopper was so much worse. It smelled like death.

I almost puked all over my lab partner

 

Aah you lucky u gotta dissect a pig...I never got a chance.

 

arghh but it would be soo weird!

 

Why? Pigs are most like human, so it's gotta be fun.