Student: ______________________________ Teacher: Ms. Carla Mendes
Class: 7th grade
Quarter: 4th/ 2019
Date: _____/_____/_____
LABORATORY: FISH DISSECTION
While observing your teacher dissecting a fish sample, answer to the following:
1) How many fins are there?
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2) What is the lateral line for?
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3) Where are the gills?
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4) Look at its teeth and infer what it eats.
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5) Look at its scales. Are they all the same? Draw it.
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6) Is the fish fresh? Explain how you know it.
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7) What is the function of the swim bladder?
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8) Was its stomach full? What could you see? Does it confirm your answer to
question 4?
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