Warm-up (Mini-essay)
What value do you think dissection and animal testing serve science?
Defend your argument in at least three paragraphs.
When you are done, you may put your warm-up in your folder to turn in, and get out a sheet of paper to take notes.

Cranial
Dorsal
Ventral
Caudal

Anterior Posterior

Medial: Toward a midpoint
Lateral: Away from a midpoint

Proximal: Closer to the trunk
Distal: Further from the trunk

Basic Appearance

Internal Anatomy

Classification sapiens
Artiodactyla
Suidae
Sus
Sus scrofa

Think about these comparisons:

Warm-up
What lab safety rules must we follow in order to protect ourselves, our classmates, and to respect the life of the fetal pig during the dissection lab?

Determining Age of your Pig

Determining the Sex of your Pig

Preparing to Dissect

What are the tools we will use?

Making the Incisions :
Decide on ventral-incision style based upon the gender of your fetal pig

Making the Incisions :
Dissection tip:
• Start above the umbilical cord
• Always cut pulling upward

Which systems will we explore through dissection?
• Digestive System – Day One
• Respiratory System – Day Two
• Circulatory System – Day Two
• Excretory System – Day Three
• Reproductive System – Day Three
Each day, before we begin, we will explore a virtual dissection online: http://www.whitman.edu/biology/vpd/main.html