Frog Dissection - Pre Lab: Anatomical Terms

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Name: _________________________________________ Dates: _______________________ Per.

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Frog Dissection – Pre Lab
Use “An Illustrated Dissection Guide To The …Frog” to collect the information to complete this pre lab. A PDF version
of this guide is located on my website under the “Lab Stuff” link on the “Life” drop down menu.
Introduction

1. ___________________________What is the most widely used animal for lab dissections?


2. ___________________________What’s the phylum of the frog?
3. ___________________________What’s the subphylum?
4. ___________________________What’s the class?
5. ___________________________What’s the order?
6. ___________________________It is important to keep your frog __ during the dissection.
Anatomical Terms
7. ___________________________What anatomical term is located toward the head?
8. ___________________________What anatomical term is toward the backbone?
9. ___________________________What anatomical term is “lying near to”
External Features
10. ___________________________What two sections is the frog divided into?
11. ___________________________
12. ___________________________What structure is the functional equivalent to the ear drum?
13. ___________________________What structure is used to eliminate waste products?
14. ___________________________What “plane” separates the frog into right & left sides?
15. ___________________________What “plane” separates the frog into front and back haves?
16. ___________________________What is the scientific term for the nostrils?
Mouth structures
17. ___________________________What tool is used to cut the jaw at the caudal end of the mouth?
18. ___________________________What are the small sharp teeth found along the upper jaw?
19. ___________________________What is the round structure w/ a vertical slit caudal to the tongue?
20. ___________________________What structure is at the center of the mouth that passes food to the stomach?
21. ___________________________What are the two openings that allow the frog to breath?
Major Muscles
22. ___________________________What must be done before locating the muscles?
23. ___________________________What’s the name of the calf muscle?
24. ___________________________What’s the name of the “six pack” muscles?
25. ___________________________Are the Latissimus dorsi muscles on the dorsal or ventral side?
Internal Anatomy
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26. ___________________________Which “wall” must now be opened?
27. ___________________________ Do you cut along the midline?
28. ___________________________Make the cuts shallow to avoid damaging ___?
29. ___________________________Which end of the scissors are used?
30. ___________________________Which figure is used to outline the additional cuts?
31. ___________________________You must remove the ___ to view the heart & lungs
32. ___________________________What are the exposed organs wrapped in?
33. ___________________________What is the membrane around the heart?
34. ___________________________Which organ has 3 reddish lobes?
35. ___________________________Which organ is under the liver and is greenish in color?
36. ___________________________Which organ is a “pea sized” structure located in the mesentery of the small intestines?
37. ___________________________Which organ is an enlargement at the end of the small intestine and absorbs water?
38. ___________________________What are the clusters of yellow oblong bodies?
Respiratory/Circulatory System

39. ___________________________Which organs are located dorsally on either side of the heart?
40. ___________________________How many chambers does the frog heart have?
41. ___________________________Name the chambers of the frog heart:
42. ___________________________
43. ___________________________
44. ___________________________What is the name of the thin membrane surrounding the heart?
45. ___________________________Where does venous blood enter the heart?
Brain & Spinal Column
46. ___________________________Which side faces up when beginning the brain dissection
47. ___________________________Which dissecting two dissecting tools are used to “tease away all the
tissue surrounding the spinal column”?
48. ___________________________Which bone must be carefully removed to expose the brain?
49. ___________________________Which tool is used to remove this bone?
50. ___________________________Which are the most anterior lobes of the brain?
51. ___________________________Which lobes are posterior to the Olfactory lobes?
52. ___________________________Which lobes posterior to the pineal body?

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