Frog Dissections...and some lessons.

The frog. An amphibian of strange ways and different species that have different methods of life. I believe it was a bullfrog that was on the dissection tray in front of my group and me. It was dead and ripe for the dissection tools to work at. So our group took the scissors and, with the "OK" from the teacher, we started to open up the frog. One of my group members was grossed out because the frog was being opened up, but still we continued the dissection. The frog's muscle was wide and it was also covering the organs. so one of our group members cautiously used the scissors to cut open the frog further. We immediately found out that the frog was female because of the black egg mass that was covering the oviducts. The parts of the egg mass seems to rip apart with a little tug, but regardless, the frog's insides were...different. The liver was half visible because the frog wasn't all the way opened up from the top. the large and small intestines were plainly visible and the fat bodies were slightly hidden but still was seen. The heart was covered because it was at the top of the frog and it wasn't opened wide enough to be seen. The small intestine needed to be measured and it measured 30 centimeters, because I accidentally ripped it while trying to stretch it out but one part measured 17 centimeters and the other part measured 13 centimeters and we just added the measurements. The practical for the frog was somewhat challenging but the dissection was a great help to taking and acing the practical, because the insides of the frog need to be known for greater discoveries that we might be able to find in the near future.