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"The right lung of a pig has 4 lobes, and the left has 2 or 3 (the number can differ). The reason for the lobe differences is that the heart is positioned further to the left hand side, and the interference of other internal organs prevents the left lung from growing into the thoracic cavity as the right lung does.
I dissected a fetal pig last semester, and still had my lab book laying around, so there you go. :c)
Source(s):Perry, Morton, Perry. Laboratory Manual for General Biology, 5 ed. Published by Thomson, Brooks/Cole, 2007."quotated from: http://ca.answers.Yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070617175954AAScDMT
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe pig liver is divided into five lobes: the right lateral, right central, left central, left lateral, and a small caudate lobe. The caudate lobe is posterior to the right lateral lobe. http://www.goshen.edu/bio/PigBook/humanpigcomparison.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/w2501/Anatomy06.pdf
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∙ 8y agoEven though humans and pigs are mammals and have similar anatomy, they do differ in the number of lung lobes.HUMAN: 5 lobes total -- 3 lobes for the right lung and 2 lobes on the left (two due to 2/3 of the heart lying on the left side of the thoracic cavity.
PIG: 4 lobes for the right lung and 2 lobes on the left for a total of 6 lobes.
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∙ 8y agoPig and human anatomy are very much the same. So the fetal pigs are often used for dissection. Both have of lobes of the lung. There are 2 lobes on the right side and 3 on the left. The reason that there are only 2 on the right side is that the heart takes up the space of the 3rd lobe.
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∙ 8y agothe human liver has 4 lobes: the right lobe and left lobe, which may be seen in an anterior view plus the quadrate lobe and caudate lobe, which may be seen on the visceral surface.
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∙ 15y agothe pig has 4 lobes, i i learned that in one of my bio labs.
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∙ 12y agoThe mink has a total of 6 lobes. These include: Left lateral, Right lateral, Left medial, Right medial, Caudate, and the Quadrate
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∙ 9y agoA pig has five lobes in its liver. These include right lateral, right central, left central, left lateral, and caudate.
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How many liver lobes in the fetal pig?
5
What is the function of the lobes in a fetal pig's liver?
A fetal pig liver has four lobes in their liver. These four lobes are used for blood filtering nutrients and toxins in their bloodstream.
What is the number of liver lobes in human and in the fetal pig?
The fetal pig's live is comprised of five lobs. The human liver has just four lobes which are the right, left, caudate, and quadrate.
How many lobes of the lungs are there in a fetal pig?
They Have Four Lobes
What are the five lobes in a pigs liver called?
The fetal pig liver has five lobes: right lateral, right central, left central, left lateral, and caudate
How many lobes does the left lung have in a fetal pig?
Both have 3 .
What is the function of lobes in a pig's liver?
A pig's liver has five lobes. The function of the lobes in a pig's liver is to prevent food from going into the trachea. To filter toxins out of the blood.
How many lobes does each lung of a fetal pig have?
The right lung contains 4 lobes while the left lung contains 3
What are the names of the five lobes of the pig liver?
There are five lobes in a pig liver. They are the right lateral, right central, left lateral, left central and caudate.
What are the 3 lobes in the right side of a lung in a fetal pig?
Upper, middle and lower.
What are the characteristics in the fetal pig?
There are many characteristics found in a fetal pig. Fetal pigs generally have all of the characteristics of an adult pig.
What organ leads to the umbilical cord in a fetal pig?
In a pig, the organ that the umbilical cord leads to is the liver. The liver is large and brown-red in color.
