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Squid Dissection

1. The document provides instructions for dissecting a squid to study its external and internal anatomy. 2. The external anatomy section identifies structures like the head, tentacles, eyes, mantle, siphon, and quill. 3. The internal anatomy section guides the reader to locate internal structures like the gills, siphon retractor muscle, stomach, ink sac, and digestive glands. It also describes the squid's closed circulatory system and brachial hearts near the gills.

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Squid Dissection

1. The document provides instructions for dissecting a squid to study its external and internal anatomy. 2. The external anatomy section identifies structures like the head, tentacles, eyes, mantle, siphon, and quill. 3. The internal anatomy section guides the reader to locate internal structures like the gills, siphon retractor muscle, stomach, ink sac, and digestive glands. It also describes the squid's closed circulatory system and brachial hearts near the gills.

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Biology 11

Name:

Squid Dissection

Purpose: to investigate the squids internal and external body structures


Materials:
1. Thawed squid
2. Cleaned and sanitized scissors
Method:
Part 1: External Anatomy
1. DO NOT PLACE YOUR SQUID ON A DISSECTING TRAY USE PAPER
TOWEL INSTEAD!
2. Locate the head, tentacles and two eyes. The head and tentacles are
the ventral region of the animal while the two fins are the dorsal
surface. There are 4 pairs of arms and 2 elongated tentacles. In the
center, at the base, where the tentacles attach, locate the mouth and
two beaks.
3. The body is covered by the mantle that forms a sheath around the
visceral mass which contains many of the internal organs. Locate the
siphon on the posterior surface where head and mantle meet. The siphon
is used to expel water from over the gills and as a means of jet
propulsion.
4. The squid does not have a skeleton but rather a chitinous quill (pen). You
should be able to feel it through the mantle on the anterior side (opposite
the siphon)

Part 2: Internal Anatomy


1. Place the squid (posterior) siphon side up on your paper towel. Make a
lengthwise cut along the mantle from the siphon up to the tip of the fins.
Open the mantle carefully and locate the gills, siphon retractor

muscle, eggs/spermatic sac, stomach, valve, ink sac, digestive


glands
2. On the anterior surface find where the water would enter under the
mantle. Trace its path over the gills and exit through the siphon. You
should see Brachial hearts at the base of the gills. Squid, unlike most
mollusks, have a closed circulatory system. Locate the anus near the ink
sac.
3. On the posterior surface make a careful cut from the mouth back between
the eyes up to the siphon. Be careful not to damage the organs of the
head. Locate the brain (white mushy mass between the eyes). Remove
and cut open one of the eyes can you see any similarities from the eye
you dissected in grade 8?
4. Remove the buccal mass and pull out both halves of the beak. Move the
rest of the head to one side and using your fingers pull out the quill.
5. Dispose of all internal organs as per your teachers instructions. Keep the
mantle, arms and tentacles for calamari!!

Results:

Analysis:

1. How are arm and tentacles similar and different?


Tentacles
Arms
Long
Short
Suckers at the end
Suckers on the entire arm
Only 2
4 pairs
2. How are cephalopods similar and different to bivalves?
Cephalopods
Both
Motile
Mollusks
Have little or no shell
Have a shell
Capable of learning
Have a foot, mantle
and ventral mass
Have an eye
Some have tentacles

Bivalves
Filter feeders
Sessile
Have 2 hinged

3. Was your squid a boy or a girl? How did you determine this?
- Ours was a boy because it had a sperm sac as seen in the drawing
above
4. Trace the path of food through your squid.

5. Why are the brachial hearts so close to the gills?


- They dont have a circulatory system so it is very close so diffusion can
occur.

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