ANAT2341 Lab 3

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Please note the different location for this week’s practical class: Wallace Wurth Teaching Lab 120.

PRACTICAL CLASS PROGRAM:

Weekly Quiz + revision (15 minutes)
Practical class activities (90 minutes)
Practical Class Revision (15 minutes)

PRACTICAL CLASS ACTIVITIES

Fertile egg dissections
Whole body regeneration in planarians
(There will be back up activities available if required)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Understand the process of gastrulation, and being able to identify the defining structures in the chicken embryo.
Understand early neurulation, mesoderm and heart development, and being able to identify the defining structures in the chicken embryo.
Understand the regeneration process of planarians following amputation and being able to identify blastema formation, antero-posterior (A/P) and dorsal-ventral (D/V) axes conservation, eye regrowth, re-pigmentation of the regenerated tissues, and worm behavior.

PRACTICAL CLASS NOTES: The practical class notes are available on Moodle