Sheep+Heart+Dissection+-+lydia+heter

The sheep heart dissection was a similar experience to the cat dissection, but on a lower scale. It was probably my favorite dissection because the heart is complex because of its simplicity. The blood flows in and flows out; providing life to the rest of the body. However, there is much more to the process of pumping blood to the body then one might first assume. People often mistake the heart for an organ that has a simple job, even though it is one of the most important in the body. However, when the route that blood must take through the heart is explained the complexity of the heart is revealed. The heart is one of my favorite organs, partly because I always wondered where the drawn shape of a heart came from and partly because I feel that it, along with the brain, is the most important organ in the human body. I loved the heart dissection because of the simple complexity that it posed. Although it was easy to find the landmarks that we were supposed to, I was astonished to see that following the paths in the heart was much harder than I had previously believed. The heart dissection was my favorite this year not only because it was simple in some ways and complex in others but also because I understood the most about it. There were other dissections that I really had to work at to understand what was going on but the heart dissection was the easiest one to understand. Although learning no matter how difficult is always rewarding, I felt much better about naturally understanding a little more in the sheep heart dissection.