Assignment: Dogfish Shark Dissection

(http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/courses/bio204/lab3_frameset.htm)
by: Ana Pacheco and Brooke Bruder
Fill in the table with the functions of the digestive tract, comparing the digestive system
of a mammal with Necturus and the Dogfish. For equivalent structures, write same,
absent or the new structure.

Organ

Function in Mammal

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Dogfish
Equivalent

Esophagus

Passes food from pharynx to stomach

See Below

same as human

Stomach

initial digestion of food, stores food

until digestion begins

See Below

same as human

Pyloric
sphincter

a muscular, narrow portion of

stomach that controls entry of food
from the stomach into the duodenum
absorbtion of nutrients from food

See Below

same as human

See Below

Humans have 2
part intestines

Large
intestine

absorb water

See Below

2 part intestine

Caecum

holds organs together

See Below

humans have a
structure like this

Anus

disposes of waste

same as human

Pancreas

secretion of many digestive enzymes

See Below
(Below Tail
Fin)
See Below

Spleen

blood reservoir, immune functions

See Below

same as human

Gall
bladder

stores bile

See Below

same as human

Liver

holds oil that gives shark buoyancy,

many digestive functions: storing
nutrients, transforming food
molecules

See Below

Liver is similar,
but Sha4rks have
a bigger one to
absorb ocean

Small
intestine

same as human

toxins

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