Cut far enough so that the bottom half of the jaw can almost touch the pig’s chest.Ģ. Using your dissecting scissors, cut through the jawbones at the corner of the pig’s mouth. Only the female has two openings beneath the tail.ġ. If the pig is female, the urogenital opening will be just behind the anus under the pig’s tail. If the pig is male, it will have a small urogenital opening immediately behind the umbilical cord.
Determine if your specimen is male or female by looking closely at the umbilical cord area. On either side of the umbilical cord, you may see mammary papillae, little nipples that will turn into teats in female pigs.Ģ. On the belly you will see the umbilical cord which connected the fetal pig to its mother’s placenta. Most of the pig’s external features are familiar to you – ears, nose, eyes, etc. Download: Fetal Pig Dissection Lab Fetal Pig Dissection Overviewġ. If you do the dissection yourself, you will need dissection pans and dissection tools, or buy our complete Fetal Pig Dissection Kit. Use this guide to help you dissect a preserved fetal pig, or just look at the labeled pictures to get an idea of what the organs look like. It is also a very exciting dissection because, like sheep and their organs, the internal anatomy is similar to humans! It is fascinating to see how all the organs fit and work together.
A fetal pig is a great choice for dissection because the size of the organs makes them easy to find and identify.
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