From the Head to the Tail: Crusaders Dissect Crawfish!
Mr. Donald Midkiff’s Biology students experimented in the lab with a familiar crustacean to our New Orleans community. The Biology students paired up to dissect a crawfish from the head to the tail. Each pairing of students was required to open up the exoskeleton of the crawfish and identify the anatomy of the specimen such as the cephalothorax, abdomen, carapace, the rostrum and much more.
In the midst of Crawfish boiling season, who would have thought to dissect crawfish up into different anatomical regions? Mr. Midkiff’s class dissected from the digestive system all the way to the respiratory system and discovered all the biological makeup for each of these crawfish. The Crusaders even identified the sex of each crawfish. These specimens were a fun way to learn more about the anatomy of the delicious food that we eat down in the South!
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