Sara Epstein (5th Year) explains what 5th Year Biology students learned when they dissected sheeps hearts in class, at the end of October.
On the 26th October, we spent lunch time and the first class after lunch anticipating the double biology class that was awaiting us. We went in, put on our lab coats and glasses. We got our cutting boards and a scalpel. We were each given a heart and started the process of dissecting and identifying all the different parts of the small organ. The small organ, the size of one's fist supposedly, that keeps us all alive. (Click on thumbnails to open an enlarged version of image.)
Sara Epstein (5th Year)
[Photos: Ms. O'Sullivan]
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