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kawaiipandamizu said:
Today in Science I dissected a frog. I know some people who say that its wrong and disgusting. What do you think?
Was the frog found dead in the wild somewhere, or did you kill it to dissect it? Or did you (*shudderrrrr*) kill it by dissecting it????

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~~Cheryl
 
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I did not mind doing it when I was in high school but I did not like the smell. The whole school smelt really bad but if you think frogs are cool you should try doing a shark. We did frogs but the week after that we did this sharks that were small ones but it was still cool.
 
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It isn't wrong, but I don't like doing it. I'm too much of an animal lover. We had to do that too in my biology class. And poor did everyone pray they didn't get a pregnant female frog. Those are a mess.

First animal we did was a worm! Then a frog and last a baby pig! No way did I do the dissecting. Luckily I had a strange girl for my lab partner and she didn't mind doing the cutting. I did the paper work! Never ever do I want to small formaldehyde again! YUCK :sick:
 
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I had to dissect a frog in my 10th grade bio class. I didn't mind it --- just the smell kind of got to me. I actually ended up doing two because my lab partner started to turn the same color as the frog in front of him (lol) No seriously I think he would have thrown up if i didn't do it for him. Anyways I think it's okay for teaching/learning purposes.
 
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Over the years I've had the opprotunity to disect worms, cow eyes, frogs and fetal pigs. It wasn't always fun, but it was fascinating. The pig and the frog were particularily educational, they provided an understanding of the interaction of various body parts that a textbook could never compare with.
 
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Personally I find the process of dissection (and even moreso vivisection, that is dissecting something that is still alive) fascinating, and with animals such as frogs there isn't much moral problems, since I kill and eat animals more intellegent. So for me, it was quite a rewarding experience, seeing what goes on under the skin. But it's not really necessary to make high school students do such things if they aren't interested in it, it's a touchy issue for many of them and unless they later pursue Biology or Medicine, they aren't really going to be using the experience in any meaningful way.

I do find the question somewhat amusing as to whether the frogs died of natural causes or whether they died specifically for the dissection. If they died of natural causes, their bodies certainly wouldn't be in any condition to be dissected, unless perhaps if they were raised to be dissected but then died before they could be killed, but that's a rather moot point. Decomposition is fast in the wild, and if they weren't getting them from the wild they couldn't get enough dead frogs. I see how the question comes up, but as someone who knows what a corpse of an animal will look like after a day lying in a forest or by the riverbed or whatever, it is amusing to me.
 
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