Biology, 11/21, Period 3

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Three large, plastic-wrapped fowl -- and one smaller bundle -- sat on lab tables, and a variety of knives, scalpels and other tools were arranged around them. Elliot appears slightly manic as she greets the class.

"Hey everyone, I know today is supposed to be ecology but that's kind of boring and it's two days before Thanksgiving so I know none of you are paying attention anyhow and we haven't done any dissection yet and we only have a few classes left, soooo we are going to dissect turkeys. Butterball turkeys." She thumped on the one closest to her, which might not have been as thawed as it could be and resounded with a dull thud, for emphasis.

"You would not believe how hard it is to find specific guidelines on dissecting turkeys, but here's a general outline on bird dissections and here's background information about the turkey. One big difference with these from your average dissection will be that the innards will be in a little wax bag, which is really cool but not exactly how it is in most animals. You should find a heart, a liver, the neck and 'gizzards,' whatever those are, in there. You want to look at the bird's bone and muscle structure and how the organs would serve their purpose. Oh, and obviously, these don't have any heads, but I figure you can live without looking at turkey brains."

"No cooking the turkey over Bunsen burners and eating it, unless you want to make enough for the whole class, but, really, it's not that yummy. And if you have ethical problems with dissection, we have a tofurky for you. Which probably will not teach you much about biology except biology of the soybean, but it's a chance to play with knives. You'll be working in groups of three to five, depending on how many of you opt for the vegetarian choice; I'll let you pick your own partners today."

"Any questions?"

Comments

Sign In, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

La!

Re: Sign In, Bio, 11/21

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Weir

Re: Sign In, Bio, 11/21

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie Madrox

Re: Sign In, Bio, 11/21

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy Altman

Re: Sign In, Bio, 11/21

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow Rosenberg

General Class Stuff, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Ask about dissection, chat, or wonder whether the teacher has lost her mind, here.

Re: General Class Stuff, Bio, 11/21

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"Dr. Reid, I'm sorry for missing class last week," said Elizabeth, clutching a note. "Flu. It was unpleasant."

Re: General Class Stuff, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Say no more," Elliot said. "We study germ transmission, but I'd rather not do an uncontrolled experiment." She went back to her desk and pulled out a file. "We were studying blood types last week -- do this lab handwavily over break and bring it in next week?"

Re: General Class Stuff, Bio, 11/21

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth grinned. "I figured as much," she said, taking the file and glancing down at it. "Sure. No problem. Thank you, Dr. Reid."

Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

One average, ugly, maybe-not-quite-thawed turkey here.

Re: Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth poked at the turkey first while waiting for other people to come and join her at this table.

Re: Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Let's roast this baby!" Jamie said with a gleam in his eye.

Re: Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth grinned. "That'll take some time," she said. "Especially as I'm not quite sure if it's fully defrosted." She poked at it again.

Re: Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow looked far too eager about the prospect of dissection. She studied her turkey and plotted a plan of attack.

Re: Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie put his arms around the Turkey. "My Turkey! MINE!"

Re: Turkey #1, Bio, 11/21

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Ack, sorry!" Willow said as her mun headdesked for not reading the subject line "I did not mean to co-opt your turkey fun."

Turkey #2, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Another average, ugly turkey here.

Re: Turkey #2, Bio, 11/21

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack frowned at the turkey. It had too much flesh. He wondered if anyone would notice if he left class to try and find some flesh eating beetles.

Turkey #3, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

And a third turkey right here. Yay.

Re: Turkey #3, Bio, 11/21

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel poked at the turkey, figuring this was practice for the one she was going to cook on Thursday.

Re: Turkey #3, Bio, 11/21

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter looked at the turkey. "This has to be one of the weirdest but most obvious themed classes I've ever been a part of."

Tofurky, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

For people who won't dissect, or those who just wanna cut up a tofurky. Yum!

Re: Tofurky, Bio, 11/21

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy didn't have any ethical problems with dissecting animals, he just wanted to poke at the tofurkey with a scalpel. It jiggled.

"Hee."

Re: Tofurky, Bio, 11/21

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker was looking at the tofurky and shaking her head. "This is weird enough to belong in Fandom."

OOC, Bio, 11/21

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Gobble, gobble.