http://blonde-doctor.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] blonde-doctor.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2006-12-12 12:05 pm
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Biology, 12/12, Period 2

Elliot is sitting on a lab table at the front of the room as students come in, and there is a laptop computer set up at each workstation.

"Hey! So I was going to do a dissection today, but then I realized some of you were vegetarians and others might just find it really icky. And? There are, like, dozens of neat Web sites now that let you pretend to cut up an animal without having to actually handle animal guts or smell like formaldehyde all day. So we're doing that instead."

"The whole reason for dissection is that it gives you a hands-on -- or, this time, mouse-on -- view of what an animal's internal organs look like. All of the stuff that we've learned about genetics and how animals work kind of comes together when you're looking at a pig or rat or frog's innards."

"Your computers have bookmarks for virtual dissections on a fetal pig, a frog and an earthworm, or you can run a search if you really want to find something else to pretend to cut up."

"Our final -- gosh, time flies -- is next week; it's a test, half multiple choice and half practical lab, on everything we covered this semester. Stop by my office hours Thursday if you have questions. "

Re: Sign In, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] notthehulk.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Teddy Altman
can_be_more: (quiet!aeryn)

Re: Sign In, Bio, 12/12

[personal profile] can_be_more 2006-12-13 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Aeryn Sun

Re: Sign In, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] peter--parker.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Peter Parker

Re: Sign In, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] like-a-sponge.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Greg Sanders

Re: Sign In, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com 2006-12-15 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Elizabeth Weir

Re: Sign In, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] dorky-broots.livejournal.com 2006-12-16 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
JC Broots

Re: Fake Dissections, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] notthehulk.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Teddy? Hiding from the laptops.

Why did they keep doing dissections in this class?

Re: Fake Dissections, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] mparkerceo.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Parker had an entertainingly icky time looking inside the frog. Although she'd seen this at her last high school, and some of the girls had rigged up a shock to make a fetal pig's legs kick. This is definitely better.

Re: Fake Dissections, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com 2006-12-12 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Isabel was able to get through the dissections on the laptops, but she couldn't help but shudder once or twice thinking about how close Max had come to being the one dissected.
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Re: Fake Dissections, Bio, 12/12

[personal profile] can_be_more 2006-12-13 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Aeryn has absolutely no problem with cutting things open, and it doesn't disgust her at all. However, she's more used to stabbing motions and so she's not really sure what she's doing here.

Re: Fake Dissections, Bio, 12/12

[identity profile] peter--parker.livejournal.com 2006-12-13 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Peter started out with the pig. Fifteen minutes later, he had searched elsewhere and found a dissection of something else entirely (http://www.trudang.com/autopsy/howto6.html).