Like many of her classmates, Luwie Villapana hopes to someday enter the medical field and perhaps save a life.
But for now, the 17-year-old Jesse Bethel High School junior is content to chop away at her cow eyeball.
“I’m really enjoying this,” Villapana said as she attempted Thursday to remove the whitish fat surrounding the preserved eyeball.
The dissection was part of a lesson in how organisms communicate, both internally and externally, said Jackie Kearns, teacher and director of the Biomedical Academy at Bethel, which has about 70 students.
via Vallejo students get eyeful at Bethel High School academy.