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Frog Anatomy and Physiology Overview

The document provides an overview of the structural organization and morphology of frogs, including their habitat, respiration, circulatory, digestive, excretory, and reproductive systems. It details the anatomical features, such as the three-chambered heart, cutaneous respiration, and the role of various organs and systems in maintaining ecological balance. Additionally, it highlights the economic importance of frogs and their role in the food chain.
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Frog Anatomy and Physiology Overview

The document provides an overview of the structural organization and morphology of frogs, including their habitat, respiration, circulatory, digestive, excretory, and reproductive systems. It details the anatomical features, such as the three-chambered heart, cutaneous respiration, and the role of various organs and systems in maintaining ecological balance. Additionally, it highlights the economic importance of frogs and their role in the food chain.
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20 Structural Organisation in Animals: Animal Morphology NCERT Maps

18 INTRODUCTION (FROG/Rana tigrina) 21 RESPIRATION 24 CONTROL AND COORDINATION


m Class: Amphibia Location/during Mode of respiration m Include neural system and endocrine glands
Habitat: Fresh water and land
m
m Water, hibernation, m Cutaneous (highly Neural systems
m Habit: Poikilotherms, camouflage, undergo aestivation aestivation vascularised
(summer sleep) and hibernation (winter sleep), never
drink water but absorb through skin m Land m Cutaneous, buccal
cavity, pulmonary CNS PNS
m Economic importance:
m Cranial nerves (10 pairs)
l Beneficial to mankind as they eat insects and protect the
crops m Spinal nerves
Brain enclosed Spinal cord enclosed
l Maintain ecological balance as they serve as link of food
m Lungs are a pair of elongated pink coloured m ANS
in cranium in vertebral column
chain and food web in the ecosystem. sac-lik structures present in the thorax
l Muscular legs are used as food in some countries m Pulmonary respiration: Air ® Nostrils ®
buccal cavity ® lungs Forebrain Midbrain Hindbrain
19 MORPHOLOGY m Olfactory lobes m Optic lobes m Cerebellum
m Dorsal side: Olive green with (Paired)
m Cerebral hemispheres m Medulla oblongata (Passes
dark irregular spots. 22 CIRCULATORY SYSTEM (Paired) through foramen magnum
Ventral side: Pale yellow Trunk
m
Head m Closed type with single circulation m Unpaired diencephalon and continues into spinal
m Body division: Head and Eye
cord)
Trunk, m Three chambered heart (two atria and one
Neck and Tail absent Fore limb ventricle) covered by pericardium m Sense organs
l Sensory papillae – Touch
m Limbs helps in swimming, Hind limb
m Sinus venosus (triangular) joins the right atrium
walking, leaping, burrowing External features of frog
l Taste buds – Taste Cellular aggregations around
m Ventricles opens into a sac like conus arteriosus nerve endings
Parameter Forelimbs Hindlimbs l Nasal epithelium – Smell
on the ventral side of the heart
Digits 4 5 Hepatic l Simple eyes – Vision
Size Smaller Larger and more muscular Liver Intestine
Portal system l Ear – Hearing and equilibrium Well organised structures
Web û ü, for swimming l External ear is absent in frogs.
Renal
m Show sexual dimorphism Kidneys Portal system Lower parts of the body
Parameter Male Female
m Endocrine glands
Copulatory pad First digit of forelimb û
m Blood: l Pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, pineal body, pancreatic islets,

Vocal sac Prominent û Nucleated RBCs/erythorocytes contain adrenals and gonads


haemoglobin, WBC's/leucocytes & platelets
20 DIGESTIVE SYSTEM m Lymphatic system: Lymph (lacks few proteins 25 REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
and RBCs), lymph channels, Lymph nodes Male Route of sperm:
Fat bodies Testis
Alimentary canal Digestive glands
Testis Vasa efferentia
¯
(Short because frogs Liver, pancreas 23 EXCRETORY SYSTEM Vasa efferentia
m 1 pair, yellowish,
are carnivorous) m 10-12 in number ¯
Ureotelic ovoid Bidder's canal
Oesophagus (short tube) m m Open into Bidder's canal
m Attached to upper ¯
Liver (synthesise bile) Adrenal gland Kidney m Finally communicates with Urinogenital
part of kidneys by a
m Red, bean like urinogenital duct duct
double fold of
Stomach m Each side of vertebral column Urinogenital duct ¯
peritoneum called Cloaca
m Nephron/uriniferous tubule (ureter)
Intestine mesorchium ¯
Rectum (structural and functional Cloacal
Cloacal unit) Female aperture
aperture Route of ova: Ovary
Ureter Ovaries
m Food is captured by the bilobed tongue ¯
m 1 pair, near kidneys
m A mature female can lay
Digestion of food by the action of HCl and gastric juices m Acts as urinogenital duct in males m No functional
m Rectum Body cavity 2500 to 3000 ova at a time.
occur in stomach and is called Chyme m In females, ureter and oviduct ¯ connection with
kidneys m Fertilisation is external and
Bile (emulsifies fat) and pancreatic juice through common open separately in cloaca Oviduct
m
¯ Oviduct takes places in water.
bile duct digest carbohydrates and proteins in intestine m Development involves a
Urinary bladder Cloaca Cloaca m 1 pair, opens
m Digestion completes in small intestine m Small, median chamber ¯ separately into larval stage called tadpole.
m Red, bean like
m Digested food is absorbed by villi and microvilli m Helps store & pass faecal matter, Cloacal aperture cloaca Ta d p o l e u n d e r g o e s
m Ventral to rectum Ureter
m Undigested waste moves into the rectum and passes out m Opens in cloaca
urine and sperms to the exterior Urinary
Cloaca metamorphosis to form the
through cloaca via cloacal aperture bladder Cloacal aperture adult.

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