What did/do you dissect in A&P lab?

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I'm just curious to find out what you guys dissect(ed) in lab.

Thanks!

ETA: My red potato, "Kali" was quite large, and had skin missing all over it. So I said that my potato died from sepsis due to a staph infection from her bedsores because her morbid obesity made her unable to get out of bed.

That is hilarious, I love it!

I dealt with a potato in lab in my first chemistry class when we were on the subject of batteries!

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cows and cadaver (no dissect on cadaver just viewed)

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Cats, sheep kidney, brain, and eye

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In high school we did cats which was the best. In college we did fetal pigs.

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@ lorirn2b I feel the exact same way, and I truly hope I don't have to dissect a cat in A&P II :sour: It makes me sick. I've already participated in an extracurricular human cadaver dissection and learned so much from seeing a human. Dissect animals in a human based bio class is mostly arbitrary. We dissected a sheep brain in A&P I and barely learned anything bc the scale of a sheep brain is so different from human brain (they have larger optic nerves/tracts to give them better night vision, etc) I hate that I might have to be around a dissected cat. UGHHH :no:

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We dissected cats, but at one of the schools I went to there was no dissection instead we had a cadaver lab, which was pretty cool.

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In my experience I dissected a cow's eye and sheep's brain. In learning the parts for practicums and seeing what they actually look like on the human body, however, my TA used a cadaver. I have taken both AP 1 and 2, but 2 was online, so only "virtual" dissections.

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Chicken leg (raw) to see muscles, tendons, etc. sheep brain and cow eyeball. Eyeball go squirt!

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We did a rat, a lot of work with cats, sheep brain, cow eye and pig heart. The formaldehyde smell stuck to everyone's lab manuals... Every time someone would pull out their manual in lecture, we'd all go "who's got a lab book out?" :)

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