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ZOO100LAB Exercise 4 - Integumentary System

This document provides instructions for an exercise on the integumentary system of vertebrates. Students will examine and draw specimens including frog and human skin, fish scales, bird feathers, turtle shell, and cattle horn. They will label structures and compare samples, then list animals and their integumentary features.

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ZOO100LAB Exercise 4 - Integumentary System

This document provides instructions for an exercise on the integumentary system of vertebrates. Students will examine and draw specimens including frog and human skin, fish scales, bird feathers, turtle shell, and cattle horn. They will label structures and compare samples, then list animals and their integumentary features.

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ZOO100 – Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Phylogeny

Name/s: Date

Section Instructor

Exercise 5 – Integumentary System

I. Objectives
In this exercise, the student shall:
1) distinguish among several examples of epidermal and dermal derivatives of the
vertebrate integument
2) identify different features of the integumentary structures of selected vertebrate
specimens.

II. Methodology
Different specimens of integumentary structures, will be examined/studied by the student,
as follows: (pictures from the web or other resources)

1) frog skin, l.s. 7) contour feather, w.m.


2) human skin, l.s. 8) down feather, w.m.
3) placoid scale, w.m. 9) filoplume, w.m.
4) ganoid, scale, w.m. 10) turtle carapace and plastron
5) ctenoid scale, w.m. 11) cattle horn
6) cycloid scale, w.m.

Draw and label the specimens as necessary – some specimens have photomicrographs
already provided. Refer to Exercise 2 – External Anatomy and Taxonomy of Vertebrates for the
guidelines in drawing and labeling laboratory specimens.

III. Laboratory Output


1. Frog skin
Structures: epidermis, dermis, poison glands, mucus glands, stratum corneum, stratum
germinativum, stratum laxum, stratum compactum, pigment cells

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2. Human skin
Structures (label when applicable): epidermis, dermis, sebaceous glands, sweat glands,
stratum corneum, stratum lucidum, stratum granulosum, stratum spinosum, stratum
germinativum, papillae of germinativum, dermal papillae, papillary layer, reticular layer, hair
follicles

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3. Dermal fish scales
Complete the drawings of each type of dermal fish scale below by adding all necessary
details in the outlines provided. Write the type of scale (placoid, ganoid, cycloid, or ctenoid) on
the space provided below each outline. Label the structures listed as applicable to each scale
type.
Structures: spine or crest, basal plate, ganoin layer, lamellate bone, circuli (concentric/bony
ridges), radii, focus, fluting ridges, cteni, posterior edge, anterior edge, exposed region,
embedded region

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4. Bird feathers
Complete the drawings of each type of feather below by adding all necessary details in the
outlines provided. Write the type of feather (contour feather, down feather/plumule, hair
feather/filoplume) on the space provided below each outline. Identify the structures listed as
applicable to each feather type.
Structures: quill, calamus, shaft/rachis, vane, inferior umbilicus, superior umbilicus,
afterfeather, barbs, barbules, barbicels/hooklets, terminal barbs

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5. Turtle carapace and plastron


Draw the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the turtle carapace and plastron in the spaces
provided below. Label the listed structures when applicable. Take note of the number of each
scale type and include these numbers in parentheses for your labels.
Structures: nuchal scute, neural scute, costal scute, marginal scute, pygalscute, vertebrae,
ribs, nuchal plate, neural/vertebral plate, costal plate, marginal plate, postneural/precaudal
plate, pygal plate, gular plate, humeral plate, abdominal plate, femoral plate, anal plate,
epiplastron, entoplastron, hyoplastron, hypoplastron, xiphiplastron

Dorsal and ventral surfaces of the carapace

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Ventral and dorsal surfaces of the plastron

6. Cattle horn
Draw the cattle horn specimen in the space provided and label the listed structures.
Structures: epidermal (keratinized) sheath, bony core

STUDY GUIDE
a) Compare the bovine (cattle) horn to the deer horn, rhinoceros horn, and pronghorn.

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b) List down at least four (4) animals in your house/nearby places and enumerate the
integumentary derivatives that can be seen/observes from these animals.

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