Reservoir for blood and the formation of red blood cells.
What is the spleen?
100
Stores biles
What is the gallbladder?
100
External openings for the entry/exit of air.
What is the external nares?
100
The largest organ in the frog's body.
What is the liver?
200
Digestive tube that serves as the passageway for food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
200
Absorbs digested nutrients.
What is the small intestine?
200
Filters waste from the blood.
What is the kidney?
200
Pigment containing and light reflection cells between the dermis and epidermis; camouflage/coloring of the frog's skin.
What is the chromatophore?
200
Located near the digestive system (small/large intestine) but apart of the circulatory system.
What is the spleen?
300
Serves to equalize pressure against the frog's tympanum from within.
What is the eustachian tubes?
300
Secretes the hormone insulin directly into the bloodstream and secrets pancreatic juices.
What is the pancreas?
300
Stores urine.
What is the bladder?
300
Opening of the cloaca through which waste, urine, sperm, and eggs are passed.
What is the cloacal opening?
300
small green organ located under the liver and sometimes attached.
What is the gallbladder?
400
Row of teeth along the outer border of the upper jaw that hold on to the food and grip it tightly.
What is maxillary teeth?
400
Connects the stomach to the small intestine.
What is the duodenum?
400
A receptacle for the wastes, urine, sperm, and eggs.
What is the cloaca?
400
Middle region of the frog's body.
What is the trunk?
400
the first structure that you cut during dissection.
What is the mouth?
500
Two sets of teeth, located near the midline in the anterior portion of the roof of the mouth with jagged edges, point inward and serve to prevent the escape of any prey.
What is vomerine teeth?
500
Secretes bile, stores glycogen, destroys red blood cells, and forms urea.
What is the liver?
500
Used for reproduction in the male and female frog.
What is the gonad?
500
thin membrane that covers the frog's eye used for protection and moisture.
What is the nictitating membrane?
500
the order of dissection that you performed yesterday.
What is beginning with the mouth (cut, opened the mouth) cut the skin, cut the muscle.