The Long and Tedious Journey to the Brain
In this blogpost, my first blogpost ever, I will be writing about a dissection I took part of. Since I had already taken part in a dissection of the same fetal pig the week before, I got right to work. The organs had already been observed and dissected last week, so this week I dissected the head. I am very curious about the brains of organisms so I tried to get to the brain of the pig. However, there was an inconvenience. There was a skull in the way. Now with my tiny scalpel, there was no way for me to cut through the brain. I needed to find another way. But how? My science teacher gave me the answer. "Use a hammer and a chisel," announced my teacher. After obtaining the items I needed, I got down to business. The first thing I noticed is that you needed hit the chisel lightly (to much force would damage the tissue). Once you are able to crack the skull, all you need to do is get a pair of scissors and cut the skull off. Now, you can take samples of the brain and look at them under a microscope or do whatever you would like to do with them.
In a post soon to come, I will talk about taking the brain completely out of a fetal pig.
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