Benefits Of Dissecting A Cat

The problem is that the vets are doing surgery on the animals and potentially hurting, and changing the way these animals are. I believe that the vet schools are not acting ethically for using animals for educational programs. Studies suggest the exposing young people to animal dissection as “science” can foster a callousness toward animals and nature. Each animal that’s dissected represents not only a life lost but also a part of a trail of animal abuse and environmental havoc. Therefore the Veterinary colleges should make changes to their policies.

People perceive dissecting fetal pigs as being cruel and unnecessary. What they don’t understand is the educational purpose behind it by providing students information to help them better understand not only the functions and structures of the fetal pig but also their own body. These fetal pigs are unharmed and dissecting causes no damage. Concerns about fetal pig dissections will always be a factor of whether or not to perform this task but, there is a reason so many countries and schools continue to educate their students through fetal pig

The biggest one was matching the organs with the pictures in the packet. Many times we found ourselves confused on if we were doing the correct thing or not, which is why we had to ask many questions and even go as far as asking our other classmates for help. Another issue that we encountered was with the tools we were given themselves. Although they were very sharp, it was hard to maneuver the blade around the pig. We often found ourselves having to switch equipment to get into the designated place. Another problem was figuring out how deep to go when cutting. The packet was not specific on how deep to cut into the fetal pig. We found ourselves damaging some of the internal organs. Damaging the internals organs affects the entire process of dissection. It changes everything of the dissection because the main point of this investigation is to identify them and not destroy them.

All animals with limbs have a common design. If a batwing were to be formed from a person’s hand, make the fingers extremely long; a horse elongates the middle fingers and reduce and lose the outer ones; frogs elongate the bones of the leg and fuse several of them together. All in all, despite radical changes in what limbs do and what they look like, this underlying blueprint is always present.

In my human anatomy teaching laboratories, the animal dissection experience generally emphasizes the isolation and

During this lab, many procedures needed to be completed. This dissection took a week. The dissection required many steps. This dissection required an understanding of how the body works and what the organs look like. The fetal pig dissection was helpful in learning

Anatomical Evidence – evidence relating to the structures of organisms and how they have evolved over time and might share a common ancestry.

Initially when seeing the fetal pigs, I was completely disgusted and figured I could not even look at them in the sink, let alone look at them when they are dissected. As my group pinned down the fetal pig and tied it’s limbs out of the way, I began to get more comfortable with the fact. As the dissection progressed, through observing the mouth and the thoracic cavity on the first day and the abdominal cavity on the second day, I became less grossed out. Observing the organs was interesting and I felt like it was a useful representation of what human organs are like, since it would not be ethical to use an actual human to dissect. I learned the difficulties that surgeons have to endure when performing a surgery. I can only imagine the high-pressure

Although grave robbing was not as large an issue after the passing of the Anatomy Act, the field still had its darkest times ahead. During the 19th and early 20th century, anatomists took advantage of the most disadvantaged sections of society including the mentally ill, people of color and poor immigrants (Cutter 2002, Halperin 2007). While these atrocities are worth remembering, anatomy truly reached its lowest point during the regime of the National Socialist Party. Corpses from concentration camps, mental facilities, and prisons were all sent to aid in research and teaching (Kaiser 2013). Throughout history, anatomists have put their morals aside for the sake of scientific advancement, but it is clear that this reached its most inexcusable

The Cat Dissection lab consisted of various procedures ranging from skinning the cat to performing the likes of a brain surgeon in cutting it's brain out, but there were three major questions focused on when conducting the entire process. They included muscular differences between humans and cats, teeth and dental structure within the cat's mouth compared to a humans, and the third being the differences between a human's fingernails and the claws of a cat. These three questions provided the goal for the dissection of the feline. The interesting thing about felines such as this specimen Felis Catus is that even though it is a four pawed animal it also retains many of the various features humans have.

This semester, in biology lab, I learned copious amount of information. In biology lab, I have learned about the scientific method. The scientific method is very important when it comes to science it is the perfect blueprint in conducting an experiment. Starting with the basic principles of science, you will use the scientific method always when you are administering an experiment . Also this semester, we have learned about the dissection of a fetal pig. In the fetal pig there's the thoracic cavity, abdominopelvic cavity and the ventral cavity. In the Thoracic cavity it contains the respiratory system everything that is a gas chamber which are: trachea, bronchi, bronchioles. Then it’s the circulatory system that transport the blood throughout

Sean Carroll’s book Endless Forms Most Beautiful, attempts to explain the variety of animal forms, structures and functions by comparing them to rules that he had found. Such rules include: major “rules” for generating animal forms, species-specific encoding information, evolutionary diversity and large-scale trends in evolution. It begins by assessing the similarities between ancient and modern organisms. It notes that the structure of certain parts like vertebrates and limbs are similar in proportion and can be varied in shape and repetition. It cites animals parts like butterfly wings to show repetition of scales, snakes to show repeating vertebrae and compared a salamander to a dinosaur to express how each follow the same modular body plan.

In the case of the cricket dissection it was fairly easy to see how close together the organs were and intertwined the were with each other to perform daily activities for the cricket. For example, the seminal receptacle and the ganglia are stacked right on top each other literally occupying the same space which leads me to be believe that they are working together to carry out the function of life that is reproduction for the cricket especially see as it was a female cricket that I was dissecting. Another example for the cricket is the connection between the respiratory system and circulatory system as it pertains to working together to help the cricket breathe properly. The connection between these two systems was little harder to see as

A mink is known as a small dark colored carnivorous mammal, the size of two feet. Within those two feet there lies a world of education and exploring for the young adult life. As a high school student many go through the essentials of school, disecting is included. Dissecting, cutting into something for the purpose of education, to study their internal parts. Studying its anatomical parts, it allows student to compare thier bodys to the mammal which lays in front of them. Opening up a mink allows humans to distinguish the differences and similarities between an animal's body and a human's body, this is known as comparative anatomy. With the use of comparative anatomy, humans can see how mammals evolve, it allows them to see if there are any

RATIONALE: The purpose of the lesson is to have students observe and describe how young animals resemble their parents. This lesson will give students the foundation knowledge they need to understand the similarities in physical appearance of young animals and their parents. It will also allow for them to understand differences in different species, through the physical appearances.. The knowledge can be applied to genetics and how young animals are similar and different to their parents in future grades.