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DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#76: May 9th 2012 at 12:43:09 PM

Is there a difference between dissection and skinning/cleaning game? Because I've not done dissections (due to all the schools I've been to being too poor to afford it), but I've cleaned animals before.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
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#77: May 9th 2012 at 1:31:51 PM

Well, from what I've done with dissecting things, you're pretty much doing it to learn about the creature's anatomy. We'd try to make fairly precise incisions and avoid damaging anything whenever it was possible, and then we would take each organ or tissue sample and record information on it. After writing everything down we'd make sketches of them if we had the time, and sometimes if the animal was big [like sharks, cats, pigs, etc etc] enough we'd be tasked with putting everything back to its proper place and sewing everything back together.

SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#78: May 10th 2012 at 1:25:45 AM

@Teenagers are teenagers comment: Well, teenagers here didn't throw hearts, maybe joke about doing something like that but not actually do it tongue

IraTheSquire Since: Apr, 2010
#79: May 10th 2012 at 1:33:24 AM

Don't they give their hearts to their people and play hearts?

LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#80: May 10th 2012 at 4:50:25 AM

... what is it with people and getting stuff on their faces/mouths in dissections? What are you doing to your specimens to do that?[lol]

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IraTheSquire Since: Apr, 2010
#81: May 10th 2012 at 1:55:39 PM

They must be really hungry. tongue My high school biology classmates are known to cook instant noodles during their labs.

strawberryflavored Since: Sep, 2010
#82: May 10th 2012 at 2:13:10 PM

For me, I was just cutting open the frog's belly, and then the juice splashed up. Then it happened again when I was opening and removing its organs.

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#83: May 10th 2012 at 2:13:29 PM

I dissected an earthworm today. Then I had lunch.

And no, my lunch was not the earthworm.

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czhang from Canada Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#84: May 10th 2012 at 2:13:43 PM

We did frog and fish dissections in grade 10 and this year in biology we did fetal pigs, plus we got to see pigs lungs in a smoking information talk and a moose's heart and lungs. It was pretty cool.

edited 10th May '12 2:14:14 PM by czhang

strawberryflavored Since: Sep, 2010
#85: May 10th 2012 at 2:15:01 PM

[up][up]How does one dissect something that small?

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
YamiiDenryuu Since: Jan, 2010
#87: May 10th 2012 at 2:19:27 PM

[up]Very, very carefully? Well damn.

I will now make this post worthwhile by suggesting that they used exceptionally large earthworms.

edited 10th May '12 2:20:08 PM by YamiiDenryuu

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#88: May 10th 2012 at 2:23:05 PM

I dissected a roundworm once. They're actually pretty big, almost unnerving in a way.

They never travel alone.
SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#89: May 10th 2012 at 11:22:06 PM

I have book which has guide on how to dissect a worm.

Its basically cutting it so that... Well, hard to explain in English tongue

HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
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#90: May 11th 2012 at 3:37:38 AM

Cut vertically, tip to tip. Let's you examine pretty much the entire thing.

Hmmm.

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Zahaele Getting dunked all day from Omaha, NE Since: Jan, 2012
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#91: May 11th 2012 at 5:11:53 AM

Earthworms are not cute. I believe it is acceptable.

All I got was to dissect a frog during my Biology course in freshman year... and they didn't use that wonderful smelling formaldehyde to preserve it!sad Apparently it's a carcinogen...

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#93: May 11th 2012 at 5:16:52 AM

How do you kill cleanly an earthworm without damaging its body too much?

Putting it in an oxigen-free environment for a while should work, perhaps; but perhaps there are better methods...

edited 11th May '12 5:20:26 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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#94: May 11th 2012 at 8:15:04 AM

Try drowning it in formalin? Do you actually want it in as natural a state as possible, or are you just interested in the structure? It's been a long time since I've handled animals...

edited 11th May '12 8:18:50 AM by Pyrite

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#95: May 11th 2012 at 8:20:26 AM

Well, I don't really plan to do it myself.

I was just wondering what people who dissect earthworms or other small invertebrates do in order to avoid damaging the specimen too much.

edited 11th May '12 8:20:44 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
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#96: May 11th 2012 at 8:43:38 AM

Well, most arthropods are gassed, I think. Especially butterflys, although they get pinned while still alive, I believe.

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carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
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#97: May 11th 2012 at 4:24:06 PM

When I prepped different invertebrates for dissection, insets and spiders went into a glass jar with a cotton ball soaked in ether, and aquatic invertebrates were fixed in a ~35% methanol/water solution. Not sure how they kill earthworms, all the ones I dissected were provided by the supply company.

LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#98: May 11th 2012 at 5:14:29 PM

Well, I never dissected any worms, just looked at them under the microscope. But when we were collecting worms for our parasite collection, they advised us to put them in a 70% ethanol solution (I think it was 70%, but I could be misremembering) or put them in the freezer to kill them first.

I understand some maggots are very good at closing off their bodies to survive in unpleasant environments though.

Once I tried to freeze a fly to humanely kill it for that collection. It revived from apparent death like three times -_-

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#99: May 11th 2012 at 5:35:34 PM

I used to be utterly disgusted at dissecting of any animals (it usually involved squids). Now, I would kill for that. In fact, I would like to watch a surgery in all its bloody details.

edited 11th May '12 5:35:46 PM by dRoy

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