Laboratory Activity 9: Digestive tract of the frog

To understand more about the digestive system of the frogs, why don’t you go over the diagram to find out more on the
parts and function? Remember these details as this will help you to understand how the food has been digested inside our
body.
 Liver Esophagus
Activity 1:
Gallbladder Pancreas
Prepare your materials and read the procedures properly and write down your observations.

Materials: Stomach

1. Preserved frog Small Intestine 6. Dissecting pins

2. Forceps 7. Dissecting scissorsLarge Intestine
3. Paper towels 8. Dissecting probes
4. Plastic food bag 9. Waterproof marker/White board marker
Cloaca
5. Dissecting tray

Procedure: Anus
1. Lift the skin just anterior to the hind limbs and cut the skin up to the chin keeping the blade of the scissors close
beneath the skin to avoid damaging the internal organ.

2.Parts
Cut the skin transversely
of Digestive System to the forelimbs and spread it laterally and pin on the pan.

3.1.Now,
Esophagus: It is muscular
lift the thin an almostabdominal
imperceptible structure
wall and make athat connects
short theside
cut on one buccal cavity
of the line to the stomach.
alba.

4.2.Insert
Stomach: It is aof
one point large pouch of
the scissors J-shaped
and structure
cut forward at onewhich
side ofisthe
themid-line
temporary storage
through the of food. This
posterior is located
cartilage of thealong the
pectoral
left side,
girdle, thendorsal to the the
cut through liver.
lower jaw.

5.3.Force
Pancreas:
apartItthe
is an
cutirregular flattish
margins of glandular tissue lying adjacent to the duodenum. It secrets yellowish pancreatic
the girdle.
juice.
6. Put the frog on the dissecting pan and pin the edges of the muscles.
4. Small Intestine: This is a yellowish or grayish structure, slender and irregularly coiled, and generally divided into
two parts:
Activity the duodenum and ileum for final digestion of food.
2: Observations
1. What is the shape of the stomach?
5. Large Intestine: Also called the colon, it is a structure, diameter of which is a little wider than that of the small
intestine where undigested food passes through.
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6. Liver: It is a large, firm, reddish brown structure with three lobes. This is secrets bile to emulsify fats. Between the
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lobes of the liver, a greenish structure called the gall bladder is used as temporary storage of bile which is connected
2.toDescribe
the small intestine
the through
mesentery a bile
that holds theduct.
intestines.
7. Cloaca/Anus: The external structure that release the waste and other materials in the environment.
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3. Describe the inside wall of the stomach.

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4. Describe the contents of the frog’s stomach.

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Bring out your art materials and let’ start drawing. For the continuation of your laboratory activity, draw the different
parts of the digestive system of the frog in the box provided below.
Activity 3:

A. On the diagram below, Label the different parts of the

digestive system of the frog.

B. Complete the information below by supplying the

information needed.

Structure name Function

1. Stomach

2. Duodenum

3. Large Intestine

4. Small Intestine

5. Liver

6. Cloaca