Axcel Martinez Biology-Mrs.Nivia February 3, 2017 This Little Piggy Something you can learn from a fetal pig specimen when dissecting it is that the pig anatomy is similar to human anatomy… How? The placement of the organs in the fetal pig are similar to humans. Weird right? For some reason doing this dissection didn’t bother me as much as I thought it would. I thought that I would be gagging and needing to maybe go outside and throw up, but I guess I have a stronger stomach than I thought I did. What I learned, through the pig dissection, about brain health and the nervous system is that there are a lot of nerve endings that connect to the spinal cord and they are connected somewhat tightly to the rest of the body through the bones. The nerves are connected to the bones because, I think, that since the bones are covered by the muscle tissue and the skin then it would be safer for the nerves to connect with the bones and branch out from there. It was pretty obvious that the nervous system was connected to some of the other systems because it was easy to see that the nerves connected to majority of the body. What I can say about the atmosphere of the class was that a lot of people were excited to be able to remove the brain from the skull because it was a challenge that nobody wanted to pass up, also the smells of the class… luckily we had candles to block the smells but they were still pretty strong. I take pride in the work and the dissections that I was able to do in class because I feel like I was able to learn more about anatomy and this certain “activity” has given me the time to consider some other profession that I might be interested in.
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