Last week, we dissected a fetal pig. We received a male pig, that was about 38 cm long. The purpose of this lab was to apply what we learned in the past two units. We actually saw the evolutionary components that we learned about. We saw what made us the latest evolutionary piece. We saw the lungs, the 4 chambered heart, and many other body parts that made humans humans. Our vodcasts in the physiology unit that we focused on during the dissection included the digestive, the respiratory, the circulatory, and the endocrine systems. There is a major difference between learning about evolution with a vodcast and probing around and feeling the parts.
My favorite part of the dissection was the probing of the inside. I felt a weird satisfaction when I snapped the ribs in half and then scraping out the connective tissue. Although satisfying, the most interesting things was seeing the inside of the pig and then discovering things like the diaphragm and the kidneys.
Here is the link to our Pig Dissection Vodcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLEIk-TFP18&t=1s
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