ACTIVITY 13

DISSECTION OF FROGS

GROUP 4 (0545L)
1. FRIGILLANA, Robert T.
2. MANGIDUYOS, Athena A.
3. MASLANG, Shannadine M.
4. NAÑAGAS, Nellie S.
5. ORDINARIO, Loribeth M.

CONTRIBUTIONS:
FRIGILLANA, R. ● Incharge of Skeletal Dissection
● Labeling of Skeletal Dissection

MANGIDUYOS, A. ● Incharge of Muscular Dissection

● Labeling of External Anatomy

MASLANG, S. ● Incharge of Skeletal Dissection

● Labeling of Frog’s Mouth

NAÑAGAS, N. ● Incharge of Skeletal Dissection

● Labeling of internal organs

ORDINARIO, L. ● Incharge of Muscular Dissection

● Enrichment Activity
ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY:
1. Describe and provide the function of the different internal organs seen in the
dissected frog.

INTERNAL ORGAN DESCRIPTION FUNCTION

1. Lungs - Poorly developed - Used to breathe when a

- Similar to the visual of a frog is active and need
balloon more oxygen than skin
respiration alone can
provide.

2. Small intestine - Part of the frog’s stomach - Responsible for the

- Yellow in color and curvy completion of digestion
- Longer than the large and absorption of digested
intestine food.
- two parts: small anterior
duodenum and a much
longer posterior ileum

3. Large intestine or rectum - Yellowish to orange in - Serves for the reabsorption

color of water and the
- It runs straight behind to preparation and storage of
open into cloaca by anus feces

4. Liver - It is important to the frog's - It creates the fluid that

digestive function. digests the food a frog
- It is a brown or black consumes.
colored organ
-

5. Stomach - It is the organ that curves - It stores food and mixes it

below the liver and looks with enzymes to begin
like a large whitish tube. digestion.

6. Heart - It is three-chambered and - It pumps oxygen rich

it has no partition that blood to organs such as the
separates oxygenated and brain, liver, and kidneys as
deoxygenated blood. well as all other tissue.

7. Bladder - It collects and stores urine

- It is one of the most until released.
important for maintaining
water balance.

8. Pancreas - carries out both exocrine

- Branched, irregular and endocrine function
flattened and is yellow in (endocrine part is formed
 color by scattered islets of
- lies in the mesentery Langerhans which
between stomach and produces insulin hormone
duodenum which is related to sugar
metabolism; exocrine part
secretes pancreatic juice
that contains of several
digestive enzymes)

EXTERNAL ANATOMY OF THE FROG

DORSAL
 VENTRAL

INTERNAL ANATOMY
A. MUSCULAR DISSECTION

B. SKELETAL DISSECTION
 Vertebra

C. INTERNAL ORGANS

Heart
Lungs
Liver Stomach
large intestine Small intestine
Bladder
 D. FROG’S MOUTH

Tuberculum Prelingual

Bifid Tongue

Eustachian Tube
Opening
Vocal Sac
Opening
Vomerine Teeth
Maxillary Teeth

Internal Nares
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