Blog #15 Reflect on your semester and year in biology What were your successes? What were your failures? What did you learn that you will never forget?

During the second semester we did many things that were different than the first. First off, the dissections were a major difference and we also did a large amount of them. The first couple of dissections were not very successful due to the lack of experience but soon enough they were successful. It was unfortunate that our frog had been taken by someone so we had to start over with a larger and a harder frog to dissect. Even through that we were able to get into the stomach and almost to the brain. Many other projects however, were successful such as the evolution project. The thing I would never forget was the frog dissection, it was the most interesting one so far, and the hardest one to do.

Blog #14 Compare two of the organisms that we have dissected. Discuss at least 2 similarities and 3 differences.

Two different dissections that we had done so far were the grasshopper and the frog.
Similarities - Both of these animals have flexible jaws which allow them to eat their prey easily.
- Secondly, they are both great jumpers. Their legs allow both of them to travel quickly to either catch prey or escape predators.

Difference - Their skin are different though, the grasshopper has a hard shell while the frogs have slimy and slippery skin.
- The internal organs of frogs have a greater similarity to our own while a grasshopper doesn't.
- Finally the grasshopper has a lot more internal and external parts.

Blog #13 Interesting Dissections

The most interesting dissection this week was the frog. The insides of the frogs had a large amout of eggs inside and the intestines were very long. Cutting into the frog was a long process because we had to cut it multiple times and getitng to the stomach was hard due to all the eggs. However inside the stomach held alot of insects which was interesting.