This week my bio class was given the opportunity to dissect a fetile pig. This dissection was supposed to further our understanding of multiple body systems by giving us a more real view of what each body system actually looks like and where they are positioned throughout the body.
This is a picture of what the fetile pig looked like before the dissection begun. We were asked to determine the sex of the pig and came to understand that ours was female which gave us the thought of trying to find the ovaries.
We started by making an incision right under the rib cage to try and isolate liver, pancreas, kidneys, heart, lungs and ovaries
After opening up the pig's belly we began to isolate individual body parts
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| The Kidney |
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| The Heart |
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| cross section of the heart |
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| An ovaries |
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| The liver After isolating all the parts in the belly of the pig Day 2 of the dissection began. This time our goal was to get the brain, lens and thyroid. Our group failed to locate the thyroid because everything looked the same, same color same texture we couldn't differentiate whether it was thyroid or fat or tissue.  Everything around the thyroid was the same color and texture so identifying the thyroid was too difficult a task for us  We began on the brain by cutting off the skin and splitting the skull   Our isolated brain was actually in excellent condition, our group took extra care not to damage it during the extraction process Next, we began the extraction of the eyes and lens    After taking out the eye we had to cut it in half to get to the lens  Our final isolated lens |
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