Tadpoles have a diet very different from adults. LM, TEM, SEM 8. Frogs and mice have different reproductive strategies. Frog eggs are several thousand times larger than mouse eggs. Compare frog and mouse cerebral or cerebellar cortex.
Neural tissue is complex and requires special techniques to see adequately.
Part of this project will be done with Dr. Kinsley in Psychology. Study the vasculature of an organ. A good way to understand how blood flows through a tissue is to visualize the vessels by themselves, by filling them with plastic and digesting away the surrounding tissue. LM, SEM 12. Use the computer to reconstruct a 3D image of a structure from serial sections.