[LAB] Toad Digestive and Urogenital System

Question 1

What are the 3 main regions of the stomach?

Answer 1

Fundus, Body, Antrum

Question 2

What is the 1st curvature of the stomach called (proximal to the esophagus)?

Answer 2

Fundus

Question 3

What is the 3rd curvature called? (more distal to the esophagus)

Answer 3

Antrum

Question 4

What is the sphincter in between the esophagus and stomach? Where is it located (proper name)?

Answer 4

Cardiac Sphincter; Cardia

Question 5

What region separates the stomach and small intestine?

Answer 5

Pylorus

Question 6

What sphincter prevents food from going back to the stomach from the small intestine?

Answer 6

Pyloric Sphincter

Question 7

What are the 3 main regions of the small intestine? (most proximal to most distal to the stomach)

Answer 7

duodenum, jejunum, ileum

Question 8

At the terminal part of the ileum, what can be found?

Answer 8

large intestine (colon; close to rectum)

Question 9

Where is the waste passed out?

Answer 9

cloaca (butthole)

Question 10

What does liver secrete that aids digesting fat?

Answer 10

bile

Question 11

Where is bile stored (hint: small green sack behind the heart)

Answer 11

gallbladder

Question 12

What looks like a brown sausage with eggs inside? (hint: has a very faint white/pinkish band on top)

Answer 12

kidney

Question 12

What does pancreas secrete?

Answer 12

glucagon and insulin

Question 12

What is the white/pinkish band on the kidneys?

Answer 12

adrenal gland

Question 12

How can you tell if what you’re looking at is a testes?

Answer 12

Looks like an intestine but is not long and is isolated.

Question 12

How can you tell if what you’re looking at is an intestine or an oviduct?

Answer 12

oviducts are whiter and thinner in diameter