Tuesday, April 7, 2009

All About 'More' Dissections...

Over a span of three modules in our Biology book, and the length of four weeks, my Biology budies and I got to dissect four animals! 
The first animal we dissected came from the class Annelida, a worm! It was our first dissection so it was memorable! (Even though it was pretty small, and not as interesting as the others.) The worm was pretty 'bare' inside compared to the others, but we got to see the ganglia (which is a substitute of the brain) of the worm. It didn't have a respiratory sitym because it breathes through it's skin, so we missed out on that. Over all, it was a pretty interesting, and awesome dissection.
We ate some gummy worms!!!

And then had fun dissecting the real worm!

The next thing we dissected was the crayfish. That seemed to be filled with much more interesting stuff in it compared to the worm. It was pretty funny, before each dissection we had, we all named our crayfish. I think mine was named Dora. Mine also had many eggs inside her, so she was just about to lay eggs. It was pretty fun overall. Here are some pics below.

I remember when I cut it open, it was wet...

Completely shell-less!!!

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