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Chicken Foot Dissection

The chicken foot dissection document summarizes the key tissues observable in a chicken foot. It provides instructions to dissect a chicken foot to observe and identify several tissues, including: - The outer epithelial skin layer - Silvery white tendons that connect muscles to bones - Muscles that contract when tendons are pulled - Yellow fatty tissue on the plantar side of the foot - Hard cartilage at the bone joints - Tendons running from fingers to wrist in humans The purpose is to learn how tissues in the chicken foot like epithelium, muscle, tendon and cartilage interact to allow movement and function. Pulling individual tendons causes movement of specific toes due to their connection between muscle

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Chicken Foot Dissection

The chicken foot dissection document summarizes the key tissues observable in a chicken foot. It provides instructions to dissect a chicken foot to observe and identify several tissues, including: - The outer epithelial skin layer - Silvery white tendons that connect muscles to bones - Muscles that contract when tendons are pulled - Yellow fatty tissue on the plantar side of the foot - Hard cartilage at the bone joints - Tendons running from fingers to wrist in humans The purpose is to learn how tissues in the chicken foot like epithelium, muscle, tendon and cartilage interact to allow movement and function. Pulling individual tendons causes movement of specific toes due to their connection between muscle

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Name________________________

Per______ Date _____


Chicken Foot Dissection
25 points
Background: The chicken leg is very similar to the human leg in that both are made up of many
different cells, tissues, and organs. These body parts interact and cooperate to allow the chicken to perform a
variety of activities such as walking, hopping, sitting, and standing. In this investigation, the various tissues and
structures of the leg of a chicken will be found and described.
As you investigate the chicken foot you will see the muscles which are a dark pink tissue that surrounds
the bone. You will also see silvery white tough connective tissue, this is the tendon that attaches the muscle to
the bone. Muscles move in antagonistic (opposite) pairs to move a bone. So for every movement there should be
a pair of tendons. One muscle and tendon to contract and close the joint, and another tendon and muscle to
relax or open the joint. The chicken foot has long easy to reach tendons which make the foot ideal to use.
Chickens actually walk on their toes and NOT on their feet. If you were to remove all the skin you will see the
ligaments, a whitish tissue that holds bones together. The thin strand of material along the muscle is the
nerve. The nerves are what send messages from the brain to different parts of the body, such a muscles or
from sensory organs to the brain.

Problem: Which tissues are observable in a chicken foot?


Materials: chicken foot, dissecting pan, scissors, forceps, paper towels

Procedures:
1. Place the chicken foot in your dissecting pan. Examine the tough outer layer covering the outside.
What classification of tissue is this?________________________
What sub-classification of epithelial tissue is the outermost layer of the skin?
_______________________________

2. Find the silvery white tough connective tissue that is near the top of the foot
next to the bone. Taking the sharp end of the scissors slit the chicken’s skin near
the open end on the plantar(bottom) side all the way down the foot. There should be
a bundle of tendons directly in the mid point.

What type of connective tissue are tendons?


___________________________________

What type of muscle are the tendons connected to?


____________________

3. Pull this silvery mass from under the skin with your fingers. Holding the mass of
tendons, PULL!!!
Describe your observation of the toes________________________

4. Now separate each tendon from the bundle and pull separately.
What happens when you pull ONLY ONE tendon? _____________________________________

4. Now do the same thing to the ventral side of the foot. Slit the skin and find the tendons. They will not be in a
large mass like the ventral tendons GRAB these tendons and pull.
Describe the movement of the toes?______________________________________________________
What happens when you stop pulling these tendons?__________________________________________
5. Pull each separate tendon like you did with the last bundle.
When the chicken was alive what were the tendons at each end attached to?______________________

6. Make a deep cut on the plantar side of the foot, where the chicken would have a cushion for walking. Observe
the yellow-ish tissue on the plantar side of the foot.
What type of tissue is this?____________________________________________________________

7. Cut open the foot at the joint.


What specific tissue do you observe at the ends of the bone?__________________________________

What is the function of this tissue?______________________________________________________

8. Using one of your hands, form a claw with your fingers. Look at the back of your hand.
Observe hard “strings” leaving the backs of your fingers and going to your wrists.
Describe their appearance._____________________________________________________________
Can you see or feel a similar set of structures in your palm?___________________________________
Can you see them in your arm?__________________________________________________________

9. Encircle your arm about an inch higher than your wrist. Wiggle your fingers.
What do you FEEL?___________________________________________________________________
10. Why do you think that tendons which move the toes/fingers attach muscle to bone instead of the
muscle attaching directly to the bone without the connective tendon? ___________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

11.Describe the relationship between the anatomy of epithelial tissue, skeletal muscle, connective tissue
and nerve tissue in relation to the physiology of the chicken
foot:________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
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