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What are features of an effective transport system?

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  • need fluid to carry oxygen, glucose, etc around body
  • pump- creates pressure to push fluid around body (heart)
  • exchange surfaces (allow O2 to leave blood- lungs, villi)
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What does an efficient system include?

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Tubes/vessels to carry blood

Two circuits- one to pick up O2 and other to take to tissues

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What is a closed system?

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Blood stays entirely in vessels

Tissue fluid bathes the cells

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What is an open circulatory system?

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Blood not always contained in vessels but circulates the body cavity which is called haemocoel (blood space)
Cells bathed directly in blood

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How do insects pump blood around their body?

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Squeeze blood towards head, flows into haemocoel

Body movements help blood flow

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How is oxygen transported to cells in insects?

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Blood doesn’t transport oxygen
Tubes with trachea openings called spiracles
Trachea penetrates into body= diffusion sufficient to stays insects O2 demand

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What is a single circulatory system?

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Blood only flows through the heart once for each complete circuit of the body

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What is a double circular;atpry system?

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Blood flows through the heart twice for each circuit of the body

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What is the circuit called when blood pumps from the heart to lungs then back to the heart?

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Pulmonary circuit

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What is the circuit called when blood is pumped from the heart around the body and then back to the heart?

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Systemic circuit

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How does blood flow in a fish?

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Heart
Gills
Body
Heart

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How does blood flow in a mammal?

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Heart
Lungs
Heart
Body
Heart
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What is the circulation in a fish?

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Closed

Single

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What is the circulation in a mammal?

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Closed

Double

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Whats an advantage of having a double circulatory system?

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Higher pressure, supplies O2 and glucose more quickly to body tissues

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What is the order of blood vessels?

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Arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins

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What do veins contain to allow them to vasoconstrict and vasodilate?

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Smooth muscle

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In what vessels does blood leave the heart?

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Arteries

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What blood vessels carry blood back to the heart?

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Veins

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What is the structure of arteries?

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Thick walls to withstand pressure- thick smooth muscle and elastic fibres (constrict and dilate vessels)
Folded endothelium- allows them to change size
Layer of elastic tissue- stretch and recoil
Narrow lumen

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What is the structure of capillaries?

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Allow exchange of materials- wall of endothelium (flattened)= one cell thick
Lumen big enough for RBC to move along
Walls are leaky= allows plasma and dissolved substances to leave blood

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What is the structure of veins?

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Unfolded endothelium cells (doesn’t need to change size)
Large lumen to decrease resistance
Thin layer of smooth muscle and elastic fibres

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Describe valves

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  • return the blood at low pressure, veins are squeezed by surrounding muscles
  • prevent backflip
  • flaps or unfolding of endothelium
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What do coronary arteries supple to heart muscles?

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O2 and nutrients (e.g. glucose) for aerobic respiration

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What do cardiac veins remove?
Waste carbon dioxide
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What does restricted flow in vessels cause?
Angina and blockages of arteries | Leads to myocardial infarction (heart attack), as heart muscles are deprived of oxygen
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What separates the two sides of the heart?
Septum | Prevents oxygenated and deoxygenated blood mixing
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What valves separates the atria and ventricles?
Atrio-ventricular valves - tricuspid (right) - bicuspid (left)
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What is the role of tendinous chords?
Prevents valves turning inside out
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Where does the aorta transport blood to and from?
Left ventricle to head and body
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Where does the pulmonary artery transport blood to and from?
``` From left atrium To lungs (only artery with deoxygenated blood) ```
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Where does the vena cava transport blood to and from?
From body and head | To right atrium
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Where does the pulmonary vein transport blood from?
From the lungs | To left atrium (only vein with oxygenated blood)
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What forms the heart muscles?
Intercalated discs Nucleus (one per cell) Branched muscle fibres- produces squeezing muscle force by spreading contraction Spaces between cells filled with loose connective tissue
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What does it mean by the cardiac muscles being myogenic?
Can generate it's own impulse | Contracts and relaxes without any nerve stimulation
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In cardiac muscles, why are cells branched?
Produce cross bridges | Help spread contractions and allows heart to produce squeezing force
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What is the function of intercalated discs in the cardiac muscles?
Facilitate a synchronised contraction
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Describe atrial systole
Atria contracts Small pressure in atria (less muscles) Blood forced into ventricles through atria-ventricular valves Ventricles fill with blood No back glow because semi-lunar valves close
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Describe ventricular systole
Ventricle contracts Increases pressure Higher pressure in ventricles than atria, pushing atria-ventricualr valves shut High pressure in ventricles opens semi-lunar valves in aorta and pulmonary artery
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Describe diastole
Atria and ventricles relax Elastic tissue recoil to help ventricles go back to original size Decreased pressure in ventricles High pressure pulmonary artery and aorta= semi-lunar valves to shut Blood flows into atria Ventricles relax= atria fill up with blood= higher pressure in atria Opens atria-ventriucalr valves Blood flows into ventricles
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What does the 'lub dub' sound of the heart mean?
``` Lub= atrioventricular valves shutting Dub= semilunar valves shutting ```
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What are cardiac muscles
Myogenic- relax and contract on their own
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Where is the Sino atrial node
Right atrium
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What does the SAN initiate
Electrical wave of excitation (depolarisation), passes over walls of atria causing them to contract
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What stops electrical waves passing into ventricles
Band of non-conducting collagen fibres between atria and ventricles
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Why must the wave of exception not be passed into the ventricles
Blood from atria needs to be pushed out before entering ventricles
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What is the atrioventricular node
Small group of non-conductive collagen fibres at top of septum
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Function of AVN
Depolarisation through a small wave, travels down purine tissues and into septum
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Function of purine tissue
Conducts electrical wave upwards and outwards through ventricle wall Causing muscle contract bottom up
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What are the stages of an ECG trace
Starts in right atrium, SAN (myogenic)- pacemaker Muscles in SAN contract- electrical impulse through muscles into atria- atria contracts P WAVE Impulse enters AVN, impulse down ventricles Impulse move down septum along purkyne tissue, into ventricles up walls- QRS Ventricles relax T WAVE, SAN contracts again and sequence repeats
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Explain bradycardia
Heart rate slows below 60bpm | May need pacemaker
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Explain tachycardia
Heart rate very rapid, over 100bpm | May need medication or surgery
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Explain ectopic heartbeat
Extra heart beats out of normal rhythm | Can happen once a day, could be fatal
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Explain atrial fibrillation
Abnormal heart rhythm Rapid electrical impulses generated in atria Contract very fast, up to 400 times a minute, down always contract properly so only some impulses are passed onto ventricles Heart doesn't pump effectively
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Explain ventricular fibrillation
Rapid and irregular electrical activity Ventricles unable to contract in a synchronised manner Loss of cardiac output
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What is blood made up of
55% plasma (water, CO2, mineral ions) 1% platelets (WBC) 44% RBC
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What is tissue fluid
Fluid that bathes cells in tissues Formed from plasma that has leaked out of capillaries Essential for exchange of materials
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How is tissue fluid formed
At end of arteriole blood has high hydrostatic pressure Pushes fluid through gaps in capillaries Tissue fluid has small hydrostatic pressure Oncotic pressure affects movements of fluid At the arteriole end of capillaries there is a NET hydrostatic pressure forcing fluid out capillary
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What is oncotic pressure
Used rather than water potential in blood as its not a solution Capillary wall permeable to ions so osmosis will not occur in normal way
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How is tissue fluid returned to the blood
At venue end of capillary the hydrostatic (blood) pressure is much lower due to loss of fluid However, plasma proteins are too large to fit through gaps in capillaries so there is still oncotic pressure Venule end of capillary has NET movement of fluid into capillary due to oncotic pressure
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What do lymph vessels collect and return to the blood system
10% of fluid which has leaked from capillaries
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Explain lymph vessels
Allow tissue fluid to flow in buy not out (valves) | Valves allow proteins through as proteins too large to enter capillaries
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What are adaptions to erythrocytes
Very small (7-8 micrometer)- squeeze through capillaries, short diffusion pathway Biconcave disc- larger SA:V No nucleus, mitochondria etc- more space for haemoglobin
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Describe haemoglobin
Globular 4 polypeptide chains Each polypeptide has a team prosthetic group contain iron Haem group has affinity for oxygen, iron attracts and holds onto oxygen = oxyhemoglobin, reversible- unloads non body tissues
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How is oxygen taken up
O2 molecules diffuse into blood plasma from alveoli O2 binds to haemoglobin forming oxyhemoglobin Taking O2 out of solution maintains a steep conc gradient Meaning more O2 enters blood and diffuses into RBC
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How is oxygen released
O2 molecules needed in the tissue for aerobic respiration | Oxyhemoglobin unloads releasing O2
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What does haemoglobin's affinity for oxygen depend on
Partial pressure of oxygen As partial pressure increases so does affinity O2 loads onto Hb to form oxyhemoglobin where there's a high po2, unloads when low po2
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Why is the disassociation curve S shaped?
1. first O2 molecule binds slowly with first harm group - binding of first harm group causes haemoglobin shape to change 2. as a result it is easier for 2nd and 3rd O2 mole to bind to harm group- curve becomes steeper 3. curve flattens because its then harder for fourth harm group to combine to harm group
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How is carbon dioxide transported
5% in dissolved plasma 10% in haemoglobin= carbaminoheamoglobin 85% diffuse into erythrocytes where enzyme carbonic anhydrase catalyses it E
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Explain the chloride shift
Hydrogen carbonate ions diffuse out erythrocyte into plasma | Causes chloride ions to enter erythrocytes to balance change
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Explain the Bohr effect
H+ ions cause an increase in cell acidity Haemoglobin acts as buffer, take up H+ to form haemoglobonic acid Oxyhaemoglobin releases oxygen

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