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Sunday, February 12, 2012

This week in science #9

This week in science I had to dissect the perch and label the parts of the perch on the Picture on the side of this paragraph. I noticed that the inside of the make and the female insides are different. I we also used specific tools to cut and dissect the perch, skate, mouse, or frog. I cut the Perch myself but its skin (scales) were hard to cut through. When i finally did cut the scales of the fish it was easy to take it off the body It was nasty when i did all the juices inside came out.  
 What I learned this week is the the inside of a perch of course is different I forgot about gender so I never thought of the body parts to be different. I Also learned that the skin of the Perch fish is strong I forgot about the scales. But one thing I learned is that the fins of the fish were sharp and very strong it might just be because its dead. From the skate i learned that its skin is very thick. I also learned that the skates mature late.
I was dissecting the Perch fish and my table was doing the skate since they wanted to do it so I let them do it with out me. The perch fish and the skate are 2 different organisms entirely but there are similarities to them. The fin on the fish is like the fin on the skate but the fins on the fish are a lot small and are not as big but the skates fins are flapped like a bird. The spines of both of them are similar but the one in the fish is stronger or not bendable like the skates is.The tail fins of the 2 of them are the same do the same thing but one is vertical and the other is horizontal.