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    The purpose of the sheep brain dissection is to appreciate the complex structure of the brain in three dimensions. Also list, identify, and describe the important structures of the sheep brain and compare with those of the human brain. Materials: • Preserved sheep brain • Dissection tray • Scalpel • Scissors • Pins • Tweezers • Gloves • Safety glasses Procedure: • Obtain a preserved sheep brain from the bucket and place this on a dissection tray. • Examine the outer surface of the brain and locate

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    People in today’s world like to make their own decision, nobody likes to be told what to do or believe in. Today’s generation is so gullible they will believe anything anybody with authority has to say and will side with something or someone without doing any research. Teens today are becoming more and more pro choice because of newspaper reporters and the lies they tell. People see newspapers reporters working for these huge corporations and think that they know everything because they are well

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    Cat Dissection Lab

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    Introduction The goal of this lab was to dissect and isolate the muscles and organs of a cat. Dissection is the act of cutting into a specimen to learn the anatomy of it upon other things. Isolation is the act of separating one body part from another. The groups were to explore different areas of the cat as a class. After observing for six days the students were to know the locations of muscles and organs throughout the specimen. The anatomy of a cat is very similar to a human so it was a perfect

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    Pig Dissection

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    [Today in class we participated in a pig dissection, we worked in groups of two. The objective of this assignment was to recap what we learned about the body's organs. The organs we were instructed to cut out the pig were the large and small intestine, lungs, kidneys, heart, stomach, liver, bladder and reproductive which was the ovaries for my partner and I because we had a female pig. Once we took the organs out the pig we had to place and label the organs on white construction paper. Our instructor

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    According to bbc news “Planned Parenthood is a healthcare non-profit-making group with 59 affiliates and 700 clinics around the US, some of which provide abortion services” (Lussenhop, 2015). To expand on this quote, nonprofit is exactly what it sounds like. It is an organization that did not establish for the purpose of money making. This group was organized to provide advice and even offer abortion services to women all around the United States. In recent news abortion has stirred up many controversial

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    of the cardiovascular system. My first task was to explore the areas of the fetal pig heart along with the sheep heart. I found several similarities and differences between the two hearts. I found that the fetal pig heart and the sheep heart did not show any significant differences. However, one difference I noted was that the sheep heart was much larger, making it closer to the size of a human heart compared to the fetal pig heart. Another noticeable difference was that the sheep heart had an excessive

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    Introduction Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a collection of conditions that affect the cognitive, physical, and motor development and abilities of children. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is caused by a teratogen, such as alcohol or illicit drugs, crossing through the mother’s blood to the developing fetus (Center for Disease Control [CDC], 201 6). Depending on the amount of the toxin consumed and the period of the pregnancy, FAS has a wide degrees of severity and therefore is considered a spectrum disorder

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    Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is physical and mental damage in a child due to alcohol exposure while in the womb. Every year, 1 in 750 infants in the U.S. are born with fetal alcohol syndrome, which is the leading known preventable cause of birth defects in the U.S. Another 40,000 children are born with fetal alcohol effects. Some infants born with fetal alcohol syndrome have symptoms such as a low birth weight, small head circumference, and facial abnormalities (e.g. smaller eye openings, flattened

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    FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME & INFANT LEARNING DISABILITIES Fetal alcohol syndrome is a condition which occurs in infants whose mothers abuse alcohol during pregnancy. This problem has gathered the increasing attention of the medical establishment in recent years. Although it is difficult to properly diagnose in the newborn infant, studies have shown that fetal alcohol syndrome results in a number of mental and physical symptoms, such as below normal birth weight, length, and I.Q. Children born with the

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    ultimately affects the development of her baby. Excessive exposure to alcohol during pregnancy can inflict serious, permanent physical and mental damage on her child. When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol she is making her child drink also. In knowing how Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be prevented, what the symptoms are, and who and what make up the risk factors fetal alcohol syndrome can be better understood. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome states "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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