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Why Do People Dissect Frogs?

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    Cathy61566
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    Your question  is about frogs dissection. Not some
    animal dissection. And you add: By scientists. Not by
    other kind of person.
    See you did not asked a broad question, but a single
    one. And you are a student, making the question still
    less broad.
    In Webster we can find:
    Dissection: Anything dissected as a plant or animal
    for study.
    Now that gives a point and a reason:
    To study the external and internal parts of the frog.
    And if you open the question you will have the same
    answer for the dissection of any animal
    (or plant) that was once alive, and by a responsable
    person that wants to learn or to teach.

    Why a frog? Some reasons: It is small, it is easily
    found, it is not cute or used as a pet, have about
    the same organs as a man“s body... And there are
    one reason that can be interesting: One  dead frog leg
    was used by the physicist Galvanni in a famous
    electricity  experiment
    (http://experimentexperimen//www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200603/history.cfm)

    and can be done by students to show also how some
    bona fide experiment conclusions can be wrong and
    still the experiment lead to  a different  discovery
    (Volta battery).

    So...is that answer enough? I dont think so. The frog
    dissection have been made all over the schools in US
    and other countries. By moral reasons some students
    or their parents are against it. It was at least one
    demand in Court because an A student got a C for
    refusing to perform the task.

    Nowadays there can be seen at Internet hundreds (or
    more)
    very well designed virtual dissections not only of
    frogs,
    but from all kind of animals, even big mammals.
    One can interact, and learn by him(her)self.

    By other hand in that field one must do with the hands
    (and brain,and sensibility) to learn, in Medicine
    schools one learn also  doing authopsies.

    Observation: This answer shows only my opinion, and
    for sure everything i said above applies to dead
    bodies,not to vivisection.

    Cathy61566 12 months ago

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