Pig Dissection

The Pig Dissection was engaging and educational. The smell of the preservatives was very pungent, however from this experience I learned a lot about the parts and functions of the body. The plasticiser helped show where the veins and arteries where by color coding them. With a few differences, pigs are very similar to humans so this helped show how human anatomy would be without actually dissecting a human. This dissection helped me relate concepts learned in vodcasts in the Physiology unit to real life applications. It was especially interesting how we could see the digestive system in a way other than a diagram. Most of these ideas I knew before hand in theory however this dissection helped me learn how to identify the organs on an actual organism.