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This document is a laboratory activity report for a General Biology II course, detailing a frog dissection procedure. It includes instructions for locating and identifying various organs within the frog's body, as well as sections for team member names and activity dates. Additionally, it requires students to label diagrams of the dissected frog's internal anatomy and mouth.

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GenBioII_LabActivity3_Report_format

This document is a laboratory activity report for a General Biology II course, detailing a frog dissection procedure. It includes instructions for locating and identifying various organs within the frog's body, as well as sections for team member names and activity dates. Additionally, it requires students to label diagrams of the dissected frog's internal anatomy and mouth.

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LABORATORY ACTIVITY REPORT NO.

General Biology II

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Members:
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Section and Team Date of Activity:


Name:

Title of the Activity/Experiment:

Objective/s:

Dissection Instructions

1. Place the frog in the dissecting pan ventral side up.


2. Use scissors to lift the abdominal muscles away from the body cavity. Cut along the midline of the body to the forelimbs.
3. Make transverse (horizontal) cuts near the arms and legs.
4. Life the flaps of the body wall and pin back.

*If your specimen is a female, the body may be filled with eggs. You may need to remove these eggs to view the organs.

Part I: Locate each of the organs below. Check the box to indicate that you found the organs.

1. Fat Bodies – Spaghetti shaped structures that have a bright orange or yellow color, if you have a particularly fat frog,
these fat bodies may need to be removed to see the other structures. Usually, they are located just on the inside of the
abdominal wall.
2. Peritoneum A spider-web like membrane that covers many of the organs, most easily seen covering the heart.
3. Liver – The largest structure of the body cavity. This brown colored organ is composed of three lobes. The right lobe,
the left anterior lobe, and the left posterior lobe. The live secretes a digestive juice called bile which is needed for the
proper digestion of fats.
4. Heart – at the top of the liver, the heart is a triangular structure. The left and right atrium can be found at the top of the
heart. A single ventricle located at the bottom of the heart. The large vessel extending out from the heart is the conus
arteriosis.
5. Lungs – Locate the two spongy lungs by looking behind the heart and liver.
6. Gall Bladder – Lift the lobes of the liver, there will be a small green sac under the liver. This is the gall bladder, which
stores bile. (hint: it kind of looks like a booger)
7. Stomach – Curving from underneath the liver is the stomach. The stomach is the first major site of chemical
digestion. Frogs swallow their meals whole. Follow the stomach to where it turns into the small intestine. The pyloric
sphincter valve regulates the exit of digested food from the stomach to the small intestine.
8. Pancreas – This structure is located on the inside curve of the stomach. It is a gland that often falls apart during the
preserving process so it may not be visible on your frog.
9. Small Intestine – Leading from the stomach. The first straight portion of the small intestine is called the duodenum,
the curled portion is the ileum. The ileum is held together by a membrane called the mesentery. Note the blood
vessels running through the mesentery, they will carry absorbed nutrients away from the intestine. Absorption of
digested nutrients occurs in the small intestine.
10. Large Intestine – As you follow the small intestine down, it will widen into the large intestine. The large intestine leads
to the cloaca, which is the last stop before solid wastes, sperm, eggs, and urine exit the frog's body. (The word
"cloaca" means sewer.) The opening to the outside of the body is the anus.
11. Spleen – Return to the folds of the mesentery, this dark red spherical object serves as a holding area for blood.

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12. Esophagus – Return to the stomach and follow it upward, where it gets smaller is the beginning of the esophagus. The
esophagus is the tube that leads from the frog’s mouth to the stomach. Open the frog’s mouth and find the
esophagus, poke your probe into it and see where it leads.

Part II. Label the following parts of the frog.

Paste a picture of your dissected frog (internal anatomy) and label its parts based on those listed above.

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Label the parts of the frog’s mouth.

Paste a picture of your dissected frog (specifically its mouth) and label its parts based on the ones listed above.

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