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Transport systems

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Functionally connect the organs of exchange with the body cells

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Most complex animals =internal transport systems

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Exchange fluids between organs and outside environment

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More complex animals

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Have one of two types of circulatory systems: open or closed

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Both of these types of systems have three basic components

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A circulatory fluid (blood)
A set of tubes (blood vessels)
A muscular pump (the heart)

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In insects, other arthropods, and most molluscs

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Blood bathes the organs directly in an open circulatory system

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CLOSED CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS

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Blood is confined to vessels and is distinct from the interstitial fluid
More efficient at delivering oxygen to cells

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Humans and other vertebrates have

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a closed circulatory system
Often called the cardiovascular system
Blood flows in a closed cardiovascular system
Consisting of blood vessels and a two- to four-chambered heart

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Arteries

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carry blood away from heart

Thicker walls due to increased pressure of pumping from heart

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Veins

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Return blood to the heart

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Capillaries

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Thin tubules that reach all tissues. Exhange materials with the tissues
Thin walls facilitates diffusion easier

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A fish heart has

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has two main chambers
One ventricle and one atrium
Blood pumped from the ventricle
Travels to the gills, where it picks up O2 and disposes of CO2

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Frogs and other amphibians

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Have a three-chambered heart, with two atria and one ventricle
The ventricle pumps blood into a forked artery
That splits the ventricle’s output into the pulmocutaneous circuit and the systemic circuit

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Reptiles have

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double circulation

With a pulmonary circuit (lungs) and a systemic circuit

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Turtles, snakes, and lizards

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Have a three-chambered heart

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In all mammals and birds

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The ventricle is completely divided into separate right and left chambers
The left side of the heart pumps and receives only oxygen-rich blood
While the right side receives and pumps only oxygen-poor blood

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A powerful four-chambered heart

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Was an essential adaptation of the endothermic way of life characteristic of mammals and birds

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The structure and function of the human circulatory system

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Can serve as a model for exploring mammalian circulation in general

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A closer look at the mammalian heart

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Provides a better understanding of how double circulation works

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A region of the heart called the

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the sinoatrial (SA) node, or pacemaker
Sets the rate and timing at which all cardiac muscle cells contract
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Impulses from the SA node

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Travel to the atrioventricular (AV) node

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At the AV node, the impulses are delayed

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And then travel to the Purkinje fibers that make the ventricles contract

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The pacemaker is influenced by

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Nerves, hormones, body temperature, and exercise

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Cardiovascular diseases

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Are disorders of the heart and the blood vessels

Account for more than half the deaths in the United States

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One type of cardiovascular disease

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atherosclerosis

Is caused by the buildup of cholesterol within arteries

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Hypertension
high blood pressure | Promotes atherosclerosis and increases the risk of heart attack and stroke
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A heart attack
Is the death of cardiac muscle tissue resulting from blockage of one or more coronary arteries
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A stroke
Is the death of nervous tissue in the brain, usually resulting from rupture or blockage of arteries in the head
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GAS EXCHANGE SURFACES
Supplies oxygen for cellular respiration and disposes of carbon dioxide
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Animals require
large, moist respiratory surfaces for the adequate diffusion of respiratory gases Between their cells and the respiratory medium, either air or water
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Gills are
outfoldings of the body surface | Specialized for gas exchange
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In some invertebrates
The gills have a simple shape and are distributed over much of the body
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Many segmented worms have
flaplike gills | That extend from each segment of their body
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The gills of clams, crayfish, and many other animals
Are restricted to a local body region
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The effectiveness of gas exchange in some gills, including those of fishes
Is increased by ventilation and countercurrent flow of blood and water
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The tracheal system of insects
Consists of tiny branching tubes that penetrate the body
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The tracheal tubes
Supply O2 directly to body cells
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Spiders, land snails, and most terrestrial vertebrates
Have internal lungs
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A system of branching ducts
Conveys air to the lungs
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In mammals, air
air inhaled through the nostrils | Passes through the pharynx into the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and dead-end alveoli, where gas exchange occurs
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The process that ventilates the lungs is breathing
The alternate inhalation and exhalation of air
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An amphibian such as a frog
Ventilates its lungs by positive pressure breathing, which forces air down the trachea
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Mammals ventilate their lungs
By negative pressure breathing, which pulls air into the lungs
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Lung volume increases
As the rib muscles and diaphragm contract
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Besides lungs, bird have
``` eight or nine air sacs That function as bellows that keep air flowing through the lungs Air passes through the lungs In one direction only Every exhalation Completely renews the air in the lungs ```
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The metabolic demands of many organisms
Require that the blood transport large quantities of O2 and CO2
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Gases diffuse down
pressure gradients | In the lungs and other organs
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Diffusion of a gas
Depends on differences in a quantity called partial pressure
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A gas always diffuses
from a region of higher partial pressure | To a region of lower partial pressure
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In the lungs and in the tissues
O2 and CO2 diffuse from where their partial pressures are higher to where they are lower
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Respiratory pigments
Are proteins that transport oxygen | Greatly increase the amount of oxygen that blood can carry
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The respiratory pigment of almost all vertebrates
Is the protein hemoglobin, contained in the erythrocytes
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Like all respiratory pigments
Hemoglobin must reversibly bind O2, loading O2 in the lungs and unloading it in other parts of the body
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Loading and unloading of O2
Depend on cooperation between the subunits of the hemoglobin molecule The binding of O2 to one subunit induces the other subunits to bind O2 with more affinity
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Cooperative O2 binding and release
Is evident in the dissociation curve for hemoglobin A drop in pH Lowers the affinity of hemoglobin for O2
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Cells require a balance
Between osmotic gain and loss of water
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Osmoconformers, (marine animals)
Are isoosmotic with their surroundings and do NOT regulate their osmolarity
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Osmoregulators expend
energy to control water uptake and loss | In a hyperosmotic or hypoosmotic environment
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Most invertebrates are
osmoconformers
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Most marine vertebrates and some invertebrates are
osmoregulators
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Bony fish
hypoosmotic to sea water Loss of water by osmosis, gain salt via diffusion and food Balance water loss by drinking sea water
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FRESHWATER ANIMALS
Constantly take in water from their hypoosmotic environment | Lose salts by diffusion
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Balance water
excrete large amounts of dilute urine | Replace salt with food and diffusion across gills
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Land Animals Water Management
By drinking and eating moist foods and by using metabolic water
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Desert animals
Get major water savings from simple anatomical features
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NITROGEN WASTES COMPARISON
Are the nitrogenous breakdown products of proteins and nucleic acids
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Ammonia
Animals that excrete nitrogenous wastes as ammonia Need access to lots of water Release it across the whole body surface or through the gills
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The liver of mammals and most adult amphibians
Converts ammonia to less toxic urea
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Urea is carried to the
the kidneys, concentrated | And excreted with a minimal loss of water
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Insects, land snails, and many reptiles, including birds
Excrete uric acid as their major nitrogenous waste
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Uric acid is largely insoluble
water | And can be secreted as a paste with little water loss
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Type of waste is dependent on
an animal’s evolutionary history and habitat The amount of nitrogenous waste produced Is coupled to the animal’s energy budget
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EXCRETORY SYSTEM BASICS
Structurally: Tubular component Function: Regulate solute movement between internal fluids and the external environment Produce urine by refining a filtrate derived from body fluids
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Key functions of most excretory systems are | A protonephridium
Filtration, pressure-filtering of body fluids producing a filtrate Reabsorption, reclaiming valuable solutes from the filtrate Secretion, addition of toxins and other solutes from the body fluids to the filtrate Excretion, the filtrate leaves the system
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A protonephridium
Is a network of dead-end tubules lacking internal openings
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The tubules branch throughout the body
And the smallest branches are capped by a cellular unit called a flame bulb
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These tubules excrete a dilute fluid
And function in osmoregulation
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Each segment of an earthworm
Has a pair of open-ended metanephridia; release dilute urine
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In insects and other terrestrial arthropod
Remove nitrogenous wastes from hemolymph and function in osmoregulation Allow water conservation; dry product
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KIDNEYS= VETERBRATE MECHANISM OF REGULAITON
Functional Unit: Nephrons and associated blood vessels | Principal site of water balance and salt regulation
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Each kidney
Is supplied with blood by a renal artery and drained by a renal vein
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The mammalian kidney has two distinct regions
An outer renal cortex and an inner renal medulla
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The nephron, the functional unit of the vertebrate kidney
Consists of a single long tubule and a ball of capillaries called the glomerulus
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Filtration occurs as blood pressure
Blood pressure forces fluid from the blood in the glomerulus into the lumen of Bowman’s capsule Nonselective filtration- has contents of blood that are not cellular
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From Bowman’s capsule
the filtrate passes through three regions of the nephron | The proximal tubule, the loop of Henle, and the distal tubule
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Fluid from several nephrons
Flows into a collecting duct
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Nephron lined with transport epithelium
Reabsorbs solutes and water
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Filtrate becomes urine
As it flows through the mammalian nephron and collecting duct
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Secretion and reabsorption in the proximal tubule
Substantially alter the volume and composition of filtrate
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Reabsorption of water continues
As the filtrate moves into the descending limb of the loop of Henle
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The mammalian kidney
Can produce urine much more concentrated than body fluids, thus conserving water
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Two solutes, NaCl and urea, contribute to the osmolarity of the interstitial fluid
Which causes the reabsorption of water in the kidney and concentrates the urine
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Urea diffuses out of the collecting duct
As it traverses the inner medulla
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Urea and NaCl
Form the osmotic gradient that enables the kidney to produce urine that is hyperosmotic to the blood
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Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
Increases water reabsorption in the distal tubules and collecting ducts of the kidney
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The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS)
Is part of a complex feedback circuit that functions in homeostasis
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Another hormone, atrial natriuretic factor (ANF)
Opposes the RAAS

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