Dissection in biology provides a hands-on education above and beyond reading a textbook. By seeing, touching and exploring different organs, muscles and tissues inside an animal and seeing how they work together allows you to really understand your own body and appreciate the amazing world around us. And it's not hard - you can dissect a fish right at home using an inexpensive specimen with a dissection guide and simple dissection tools! Many doctors, surgeons and veterinarians report that their first fascination with the body started with a biology dissection class
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In today’s dissection, we’ll be looking at a perch. Perch are members of the phylum Chordata. There are many things that make perch interesting: they are bony fishes which make them “true” fishes, they live in both freshwater and saltwater, and their diets change based on how big they are.
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