Sep. 15th, 2005

Physiological chemistry makes sense, a lot of it. If you take a molecule and subject it to a series of reactions the end result is predictable and the same. Gluconeogenesis in a cat is no different than a dog etc.
Gross anatomy makes some sense. muscle names often help one figure out what it does (except extensor carpi ulnarus, its a weak flexor, but it's located with the extensor group). Nerves usually inervate the muscles you expect them to, bone attachments and muscle actions all have a weird logic to them.

Do you know what does not make sense? Developmental anatomy. It's weird. Everyone does it differently. some things are only true in dogs (they ovulate at a weird point in meiosis), somethings only work in primates, some stuff is the same in carnivores, primates and freaking rodents but not other animals. It makes no sense, but at 8am tomorrow I'll be tested on it.

I ask you why, in the name of everything anyone considers holy, why, does a fertilized horse ovum need to bounce around the uterus for 16 days before impanting or the mare won't recognize the pregnancy?

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