Gallery: Pat The Rat Dissection

Meredith Bell
January 9, 2013

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Dishan Romine and his lab partner Tia Harper identify muscles on the rat and mark them with pins.
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Kourtney Carpenter and Stephanie Tapolsky get ready to start dissecting their rat.
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The utenciels that the class were using to dissect the rats.
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Ciara Cosby and Aaron Jessie worked together to pickout the muscles and dissect the rat.

 

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After each group pointed out the muscles they were able to dissect the rat.
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Ciara Cosby (12) watches Joseph Plymale (12) as him and his partner attempt removing the rats brain.
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Megan Ingabe (12) and her partner, Gwendolyn Heine (12) examine the main muscles of the rat’s neck.
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Joseph Plymale (12) and his partner Nicole Williams (12) pull out their rat’s small intestines.
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Sydney Barnett (12) and Hannah Oliver (12) remove the connective tissue on their rat’s back leg to examine the muscle more clearly.
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Nicole Williams (12) and Joseph Plymale (12) begin examining the internal organs of their rat.