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Briefly describe the vascular system of insects.

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● Open circulatory system
● Dorsal-tube shaped heart
● Respiratory gases not carried in blood

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What is an open circulatory system?

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● Transport medium pumped by the heart is not contained within vessels, but moves freely
● Transport fluid comes into direct contact with the cells

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Briefly describe the vascular system of earthworms

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● Vascularisation
● Closed circulatory system
● Respiratory gases carried in blood

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What is a closed circulatory system?

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● Blood pumped by the heart is contained within blood vessels
● Blood does not come into direct contact with the cells

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Describe the advantages of a closed
circulatory system

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● Blood pressure can be maintained
● Blood supply to different organs can vary
● Lower volumes of transport fluid required

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What type of circulatory system do
fish have?

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Single circulatory system

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What is a single circulatory system?

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● Circulatory system in which the blood travels through the heart once in one circuit
● Blood flows through the heart and is pumped around the body before returning to the heart

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What type of circulatory system do
mammals have?

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Double circulatory system

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What is a double circulatory system?

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● Circulatory system in which the blood flows through the heart twice in two circuits
● Blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs before returning to the heart. It is then pumped around the body, after which it returns to the heart again

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What are the benefits of a double
circulatory system?

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● Maintains blood pressure around the whole body
● Uptake of oxygen is more efficient
● Delivery of oxygen and nutrients is more efficient
● Blood pressure can differ in pulmonary and systemic circuits

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Describe the double circulatory system in
humans

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Blood flows through the heart twice in two circuits:
● Pulmonary circuit
● Systemic circuit

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Name the four chambers of the
mammalian heart.

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● Left atrium
● Right atrium
● Left ventricle
● Right ventricle

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Describe the pathway of blood around
the body, naming the structures of the
heart

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Pulmonary vein → Left atrium → Left ventricle →Aorta → Body → Vena cava → Right atrium → Right ventricle → Pulmonary artery → Lungs

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Where are the atrioventricular valves
found and what is their function?

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● Found between the atria and ventricles
● Prevent the backflow of blood from the
ventricles into the atria

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What are the two types of
atrioventricular valves?

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● Bicuspid (left side)
● Tricuspid (right side)

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Where are the semilunar valves found
and what is their function?

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● Found between the ventricles and arteries
● Prevent the backflow of blood from the
arteries into the ventricles

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Name the five types of blood vessel.

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● Arteries
● Arterioles
● Capillaries
● Venules
● Veins

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Describe the pathway of blood through
the blood vessels.

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heart → arteries → arterioles →
capillaries → venules → veins → heart

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What is the function of arteries?

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Carry blood away from the heart to the
tissues, under high pressure

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Relate the structure of arteries to their
function

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Thick, muscular walls to handle high
pressure without tearing. Elastic tissue
allows recoil to prevent pressure surges.
Narrow lumen to maintain pressure

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What is the function of veins?

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Carry blood towards the heart under low
pressure.

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Relate the structure of veins to their
function.

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Thin walls due to lower pressure. Require
valves to ensure blood doesn’t flow
backwards. Have less muscular and elastic
tissue as they don’t have to control blood
flow.

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What is the function of capillaries?

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Form a large network through the tissues
of the body and connect the arterioles to
the venules.

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Relate the structure of capillaries to their
function.

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● Walls only one cell thick ∴ short diffusion pathway
● Very narrow, so can permeate tissues and red blood cells can lie flat against the wall, reducing the diffusion distance
● Numerous and highly branched, providing a large surface area

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What is the function of arterioles?
Connect the arteries and the capillaries.
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What is the function of venules?
Connect the capillaries and the veins
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Relate the structure of arterioles and venules to their function.
● Branch off arteries and veins in order to feed blood into capillaries ● Smaller than arteries and veins so that the change in pressure is more gradual as blood flows to the capillaries
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What is the cardiac cycle?
● The sequence of events involved in one complete contraction and relaxation of the heart ● Three stages: atrial systole, ventricular systole and diastole
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Describe what happens during ventricular diastole
The heart is relaxed. Blood enters the atria, increasing the pressure and pushing open the AV valves. This allows blood to flow into the ventricles. Pressure in the heart is lower than in the arteries, so SL valves remain closed.
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Describe what happens during atrial systole.
● The atria contract, pushing any remaining blood into the ventricles ● AV valves pushed fully open
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Describe what happens during ventricular systole
The ventricles contract. The pressure in the ventricles increases, closing the AV valves to prevent backflow and opening the SL valves. Blood flows into the arteries
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Why is cardiac muscle described as myogenic?
It initiates its own contraction without outside stimulation from nervous impulses
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Explain how the heart contracts.
● SAN initiates and spreads impulse across the atria, so they contract ● AVN receives, delays, and then conveys the impulse down the bundle of His ● Impulse travels into the Purkyne fibres which branch across the ventricles, so they contract from the bottom up
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What is an electrocardiogram (ECG)?
A graph showing the electrical activity in the heart during the cardiac cycle.
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Explain the characteristic patterns displayed on a typical ECG
● P wave - depolarisation of atria during atrial systole ● QRS wave - depolarisation of ventricles during ventricular systole ● T wave - repolarisation of ventricles during ventricular diastole
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Describe the structure and function of erythrocytes.
● Type of blood cell that is anucleated and biconcave ● Contains haemoglobin which enables the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the tissues
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What is plasma?
● Main component of the blood (yellow liquid) that carries red blood cells ● Contains proteins, nutrients, mineral ions, hormones, dissolved gases and waste. Also distributes heat
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Describe the role of haemoglobin.
Present in red blood cells. Oxygen molecules bind to the haem groups and are carried around the body, then released where they are needed in respiring tissues.
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How does the partial pressure of oxygen affect oxygen-haemoglobin binding?
Haemoglobin has variable affinity for oxygen depending on the partial pressure of oxygen, p(O2): ● At high p(O2), oxygen associates to form oxyhaemoglobin ● At low p(O2), oxygen dissociates to form deoxyhaemoglobin
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Write an equation for the formation of oxyhaemoglobin.
Hb + 4O2 ⇌ Hb*4O2
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What do oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curves show?
Saturation of haemoglobin with oxygen (%), plotted against partial pressure of oxygen (kPa). Curves further to the left show that the haemoglobin has a higher affinity for oxygen.
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Explain the shape of oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curves.
Sigmoidal curve (S-shaped): ● When first O2 molecule binds, it changes the tertiary structure of haemoglobin so that it is easier for the second and third molecules to bind ● Third molecule changes the tertiary structure of haemoglobin so that it is more difficult for the fourth molecule to bind
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How does fetal haemoglobin differ from adult haemoglobin?
Has a higher affinity for oxygen than adult haemoglobin due to the presence of two different subunits that allow oxygen to bind more readily.
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Why is the higher affinity of fetal haemoglobin important?
Enables the fetus to obtain oxygen from the mother’s blood.
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Compare the dissociation curves of adult and fetal haemoglobin.
Fetal haemoglobin dissociation curve to the left. At the same partial pressure, % oxygen saturation is greater due to fetal haemoglobin having a higher affinity.
46
Predict the shape of the dissociation curves of animals adapted to low oxygen level habitats.
● Haemoglobin has a greater affinity for oxygen ● Haemoglobin is saturated at a lower p(O2) ● ∴ dissociation curve to the left
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How is carbon dioxide carried from respiring cells to the lungs?
● Transported in aqueous solution in the plasma ● As hydrogen carbonate ions in the plasma ● Carried as carbaminohaemoglobin in the blood
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What is the chloride shift?
● Process by which chloride ions move into the erythrocytes in exchange for hydrogen carbonate ions which diffuse out of the erythrocytes ● One-to-one exchange
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Why is the chloride shift important?
It maintains the electrochemical equilibrium of the cell.
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What is the function of carbonic anhydrase?
Catalyses the reversible reaction between water and carbon dioxide to produce carbonic acid.
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Write equations to show the formation of hydrogen carbonate ions in the plasma.
Carbonic anhydrase enzyme catalyses: CO2+ H2O ⇌ H2CO3 (carbonic acid) Carbonic acid dissociates: H2CO3 ⇌HCO3 - (hydrogen carbonate ions) + H+
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State the Bohr effect
The loss of affinity of haemoglobin for oxygen as the partial pressure of carbon dioxide increases.
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Explain the role of carbonic anhydrase in the Bohr effect.
● Carbonic anhydrase is present in red blood cells ● Catalyses the reaction of carbon dioxide and water to form carbonic acid, which dissociates to produce H+ ions ● H+ ions combine with the haemoglobin to form haemoglobinic acid ● Encourages oxygen to dissociate from haemoglobin
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what is tissue fluid

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