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MC1N Anatomy and Physiology

Laboratory Activity # 2

The Heart
Group #_________
Group Members:

INSTRUCTIONS: Follow the procedure below. Sufficient time will be given to students to study the
structure of the chicken heart. Using what you have learned and what you’ve observed, answer the
questions that will be provided in the later part of the activity.

REFERENCE: Woodstown.org (n.d.). Chicken Heart Dissection.

MATERIALS:

1. Dissecting pan (or any unused tin can where you can place the heart)
2. Dissecting knife (cutter or knife)
3. Clean gloves
4. Magnifying glass (used eye glasses)
5. Chicken heart (3 pcs.)

PROCEDURE:

1. Wash your hands and disinfect the surface where you will conduct the activity to prevent the
spread of microorganisms.
2. Place the chicken heart on the pan.
3. Observe and feel the structure of the heart.
4. Create a midsagittal incision on the heart.
5. Place the specimen under the magnifying glass and take a photo of the specimen (The questions
will be provided after you are finish dissecting and observing the specimen).
6. Using another chicken heart specimen, create a frontal incision.
7. Place the specimen under the magnifying glass and take a photo of the specimen.
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QUESTIONS:

1. Put your photo of the chicken heart in the box provided below and label its parts

Chicken Heart (Sagittal) Chicken Heart (Frontal)

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Before the specimen was dissected:

2. Which area of the heart was the firmest? Why is that area firmest?
 Lower left side

3. What are the functions of the blood vessels in the outer walls of the heart?
 To operate effectively, nutrients and oxygen must reach tissues that are located outside
of the heart. The exterior blood vessels are in charge of this. It is impossible for the
heart to feed cardiac muscle with nourishment and oxygen on its own. The major aorta,
which supplies the heart's oxygenated and nutrient-rich blood arteries, gives birth to all
of these blood vessels. That's how critical the heart's blood arteries are to overall health
and performance.

After dissection:

4. How many chambers does a chicken heart have? Compare it with the human heart.
 According to Gorski (1998 ) the chicken heart, such as the human heart, has four
chambers: the right atrium and ventricle, which receives deoxygenated blood from the
body and delivers it to the lungs, and the left atrium and ventricle, which receives
oxygenated blood from the lungs and sends it back to the body.

5. In which chamber are the heart muscles thickest? Give at least 1 factor that makes your
identified chamber the thickest?
 Left ventricle - by means of pumping blood to all parts of the body, whereas the right
ventricle is tasked with pumping just the lungs.

6. Where do the atria pump blood to in the body?

 Ventricles

7. Where do the ventricles pump blood to in the body?

 In contrast to the atria, which collect blood from the body to feel into the ventricles, the
ventricles pump blood to the rest of the body.

Make a PowerPoint presentation on this laboratory to be presented on Tuesday, May 21, 2021. Aside
from the questions provided above, you can also put additional observations (please make sure that you
have really observed them). Should you use references, please cite accordingly.
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