Frog Functions Flashcards
Mouth
Capture prey
Maxilary teeth
Hold prey
espohogus
pass food to stomach
stomach
holds food begins digestion
glosttis
allows air to the lungs
gullet
allows food to the stomach
eustacian tube
helps equalize pressure
vomerine teeth
holds prey
tongue
captures prey
nostril/nares
detect odors
small intestine
digestion and absorbtion
large intstine
reabsorbtion of water
cloaca
expels waste/urine /eggs
liver
makes bile
fat bodies
stores fat
heart
pumps blood
spleen
stores extra blood and filters blood
gallbladder
stores bile
pancreas
makes digestive enzymes
mesentery
holds organs in place
lung
gas exchange
pyloric sphincter
controls food that enters the small intestine
egg mass
reproduction
oviducts
where mature eggs exit
testes
produce sperm
kidney
filters liquid waste from blood
ventricles of heart
pump blood
dorsal
back
ventral
belly
anterior
front
posterior
rear
ovaries
produce eggs and stores them