1. What is the function of the spleen?
Filters blood, recycles old red blood cells

2. What are the three segments of the small intestine called
What are the three segments of the small intestine called? Start with the segment closest to the stomach.
duodenum, jejunum, ileum

3. Which dissecting tool that we used is appropriate for separating thin tissue and membranes
Teasing needle

4. Which dissecting tool that we used is appropriate for separating muscle tissue
scissors

5. If a fetal pig intestine is 230 cm long, how many meters is it?

6. If a fetal pig intestine is 3
If a fetal pig intestine is 3.1 meters long, how many centimeters long is it?
310 meters

7. Where is the cecum located?
In the abdomen, between the small intestine and the colon

8. To what system does the liver belong?
digestive

9. What is the function of the gall bladder?
stores bile

10. Which part of the scissors is used to make the first cut into the pig?
Pointed or sharp part

11. What are the auricles and where are they located?
They are on the upper area of the heart. There are two of them and they are also referred to as the atrium. The atrium is the open space inside of the auricle

12. What is the function of bile and what organ produces it?
It helps digest fat and it is produced by the liver.
The gall bladder stores bile although it does not produce it.

13. What type of plane separates the pig into right and left sides?
sagittal plane

14. What type of plane separates the pig into cranial and caudal halves?
Transversal plane

15. What type of plane separates the pig into dorsal and ventral halves?
Frontal plane

16. What term means toward the tail end of the pig?
caudal

17. What term means toward the head end of the pig?
cranial

18. What term means toward far end of an appendage
What term means toward far end of an appendage? Like the hoof end of the leg
distal

19. What term means toward near end of an appendage
What term means toward near end of an appendage? Like the part of the leg nearer to the body.
proximal

20. How is the length of the digestive system helpful to its function?
Gives more surface area to absorb nutrients. Also give more time for absorption

21. What sheet of muscle separates the organs of the thorax from those of the abdomen?
diaphragm

22. What is another name for the large intestine of the pig?
colon (The spiral colon is the main part of the colon, but not the whole thing) spiral colon

23. Which of the four chambers of the heart pumps blood to the body?
Left ventricle

24. What is the systemic loop of the circulatory system?
It is the loop that brings blood to and from the body

25. What name is given to the “lung” loop of the circulatory system?
It is called the pulmonary loop

26. Which of the four chambers of the heart pumps blood to the lungs?
Right ventricle

27. Which of the four chambers of the heart receives blood returning from the lungs?
Left atrium (or auricle)

28. Which structures bring blood to the muscles of the heart so they can get energy?
Coronary arteries

29. How can you tell the sex of the fetal pig?
Male- urogenital opening near umbilical cord
Female- urogenital opening near anus

30. What are the nares of the pig and where are they located?
They are the openings of the nostrils. They are on the snoot.

31. Which of the four chambers of the heart receives blood returning from the body?
Right atrium (or auricle)

32. What is another name for the voice box?
larynx

33. What is the epiglottis and where is it located?
It is in the throat and it keeps food from going the the wrong way and going into the trachea.

34. What is this structure?
trachea

35. What is this structure?
lung

36. What is this structure?
larynx

37. What is this structure?
Small intestine

38. What is this structure?
liver

39. Which of the three main sections of the body is this?
abdomen

40. Was the cut made on this pig made on the dorsal or ventral side?

41. What is this structure?
spleen

42. What is this structure?
Gall bladder

43. What is this structure?
stomach

44. What is this structure?
heart

45. What is this structure?
lung

46. What is this structure?
mandible

47. What is this structure?
pelvis

48. What is this structure?
femur

49. What is this structure?
skull

50. What is this structure?
femur

51. What is this structure?
scapula

52. What is this structure?
humerus

53. What is this structure?
pelvis

54. What is this structure?
radius

55. What is this structure?
ulna

56. What is this structure? You can give the general name.
Vertebra singular
Vertebrae plural

57. What is this structure?
fibula

58. What is this structure?
tibia

59. What is this structure?
humerus

60. What are these structures?
Right auricle (atrium)
Right ventricle
Left auricle (atrium)
D. Left ventricle

61. What is the largest artery in the body?
aorta

62. What are the names of each of the dissecting tools we used?
Scissors, forceps. probe

63. Name the three main body areas.
Head, thorax, and abdomen

64. What is the name given to the liquefied food that passes through the digestive system
chyme

65. What is the name of the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach
esophagus

66. What name is given to the connective tissue that holds the small intestines in place?
mesentery

67. What system does the pancreas belong to? What is its function?
The pancreas belongs to the digestive system. It produces digestive enzymes.

68. What is the membrane that covers and protects the heart?
pericardial membrane

69. What is the muscular wall that separates the right and left ventricle from each other?
Hint: separates
septum

70. What structure gathers and prepares waste materials for exiting the body through the anus.
rectum