Chicken Wing Dissection
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• Each photograph needs to include an
approved marker to assure authenticity.
Work as a team! Research, Photograph,
Dissect, Produce the Power Point.
Everyone is to be busy!
Do not plan on washing your hands until the
end of the dissection has been announced by
the instructor.
Chicken Wing Dissection
Alicia Jackman, Marshe’ Slaughter, Kristen
Jackson, Bryan Huey.
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Background
Skeletal Muscle;
• Function 1: The nerve moves the wing.
• Function 2: Is a pulling of the bone in the wing caused by the muscle.
• Function 3: A muscle that lies next to the bone to make it that bone move.
Materials
Gather dissection material: tray,
scissors, chicken wing and
probes. Use Photos!
Materials
• Tweezers, Scissors, Scalpel, a pointy thing,
water dropper.
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Procedure Step 1
• Extend wing
• QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
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Upper wing
Lower wing
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Wing tip
Procedure Step 2
Cutting the skin
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decompressor
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decompressor
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Procedure Step 3
Remove as much skin from the thickest
part of the wing as possible, exposing
the underlying muscle
(Need to lable muscle)
Procedure Step 4
QuickTime™ and a
MPEG-4 Video decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Procedure Step 5
• When holding the elbow down the muscles move
apart from each other. Like it’s extending.
Procedure Step 6
FAT
FAT
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Procedure step 7
Tendon
Procedure step 8
Ligament
Connects one bone to the other
Procedure step 9
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Cartilage
Procedure step 10
• Once you have identified the following
parts: skin, muscle, tendon, ligament,
cartilage and bone, call your instructor
over for a group oral quiz.
Procedure step 11
Clean UP!!!
• Throw away all chicken wing parts into
the designated garbage can.
• Put dissection tools into beaker of
soapy water. Stack tray next to beaker.
Wash your hands thoroughly with
soap and water.
Questions: (hint
hint!write them in your
notebook!!!)
1.
What function is performed by ligaments?_________________________________________
What is the function of a tendon? ________________________________________________
2.
What is more proximal, the insertion or the origin for the attachment of the muscles in the chicken wing?
3.
What tissue is referred to when one speaks of the “meat” of the chicken?
4.
Name the two main types of movement that occur when a wing is raised and lowered in flight.
5. What bone in the wing is connected to the chicken’s body at the shoulder?
____________________
6.
Name the two bones found in the forearm of the wing. ________________ _____________________
7.
What type of joint connects the wing to the body? _______________________________________
8.
What type of joint moves the wing at the elbow?
9.
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The muscle you observed is classified as what type of muscle tissue? ____________________________
Credits
• Dissector:(only 1 student name per credit)
Camera:
Computer:Alicia Jackman
Producer:
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