Hey all,
here I am again to tell you a little bit more about my internship as a science
major here. So, I have taken different classes and one of them was the
Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, a class taught by the professor Dr.Hood here at Loyola. Sounds hard, huh? And it was. Although I've
learned a lot during this class since I took the lecture and the lab. The
lecture required a lot (I mean A LOT) of reading and dedication otherwise you
would not be able to understand the classes and neither the lab.
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| In the lab with my friends! |
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| We labeled all this points to compare and figure out relations of ontogeny or phylogeny between different types of skull |
Comparative
Vertebrate Anatomy is a course concerning the evolution of vertebrates. We
explored how vertebrates originated, their characteristic anatomical and
physiological features, how they developed, and how those features allow
vertebrates to perceive their environment, seek prey, avoid predators, maintain
homeostasis and basically do everything an organism must do to live. The
vertebrate body is not simply a collection of static anatomy, but that the form
and function of vertebrates is integrated into functional systems.
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| Different types of teeth |
It was a great experience since I learned how to identify
homologies and analogy between structures in the vertebrate’s skeleton and the
relevance of form in function of several structures, including the teeth. We
also learned the biomechanics of the vertebrate skeleton and the most diverse
types of locomotion and its implications.
Last but not least, we learned
all the systems that compose the body of vertebrates from its functioning until
the name of its main structures.
Dissection class
Ps: remember that the animal
was already preserved.
