Connecting Observations with Learning

There is extensive evidence that if you take notes or make drawings of what you observe, you will retain that information much better than if you are not required to do anything during the activity. While not everyone can do the dissection, everyone can do the following diagrams of what they have just observed.

1. Draw a diagram of the cow, pig, or mare reproductive tract you were given to dissect in lab or for the online lab select one of the species and identify the following structures.
   
   
   

   	broad ligament mesovarium mesosalpinx mesometrium germinal epithelium tertiary follicle corpus luteum corpus albicans fimbria	infundibulum ampulla isthmus uterotubal junction uterine horn uterine body endometrium myometrium perimetrium		bifurcation caruncles (cow) cervix internal cervical os external cervical os cervcal rings/interdigitating prominences fornix of the vagina (cow) vagina (anterior and posterior if present)