Frog Functions Flashcards
1
Q
Mouth
A
Capture prey
2
Q
Maxilary teeth
A
Hold prey
3
Q
espohogus
A
pass food to stomach
4
Q
stomach
A
holds food begins digestion
5
Q
glosttis
A
allows air to the lungs
6
Q
gullet
A
allows food to the stomach
7
Q
eustacian tube
A
helps equalize pressure
8
Q
vomerine teeth
A
holds prey
9
Q
tongue
A
captures prey
10
Q
nostril/nares
A
detect odors
11
Q
small intestine
A
digestion and absorbtion
12
Q
large intstine
A
reabsorbtion of water
13
Q
cloaca
A
expels waste/urine /eggs
14
Q
liver
A
makes bile
15
Q
fat bodies
A
stores fat
16
Q
heart
A
pumps blood
17
Q
spleen
A
stores extra blood and filters blood
18
Q
gallbladder
A
stores bile
19
Q
pancreas
A
makes digestive enzymes
20
Q
mesentery
A
holds organs in place
21
Q
lung
A
gas exchange
22
Q
pyloric sphincter
A
controls food that enters the small intestine
23
Q
egg mass
A
reproduction
24
Q
oviducts
A
where mature eggs exit
25
testes
produce sperm
26
kidney
filters liquid waste from blood
27
ventricles of heart
pump blood
28
dorsal
back
29
ventral
belly
30
anterior
front
31
posterior
rear
32
ovaries
produce eggs and stores them
