Animal transport 2.3 Flashcards
What are the characteristics of an open circulatory system?
-Low pressure
-No separation between blood and interstitial fluid (haemolymph)
-Dorsal tube shaped heart
-No respiratory pigment
-No respiratory gases
How does the circulatory system of an insect work?
-Materials are exchanged between haemolymph and cells in haemocoel
-Heart pumps at low pressure, fluid returns slowly from haemocoel
-Fluid doesn’t travel through vessels, but bathes tissues directly
How do closed circulatory systems work?
-High pressure
-Blood confined to vessels and is separate from interstitial fluid
-One or more pumps
-Large vessels divide into smaller vessels
-Material diffuses between vessels and interstitial fluid
-Respiratory pigment carries gases
How does the circulatory system of an earthworm work?
-Vessels joined end to end in closed loop
-Dorsal vessel (main heart)
-Blood moves backwards to tail (ventral)
-Blood moves to head (dorsal)
-5 pseudohearts
-Capillary network in intestine
-Oxygen diffuses via moist body surface
What animals use an open circulatory system?
-Insects
-Crustaceans
-Most molluscs
What animals use a closed circulatory system?
-Vertebrates
-Cephalopods
-Annelid worms
What are afferent arteries?
They bring blood to an organ
What are efferent arteries?
They bring blood away from an organ
What are the characteristics of a single circulatory system?
-Lower pressure
-Less energy to power heart
-Higher pressure to gills
-Lower pressure to body
What are the characteristics of a double circulatory system?
-High pressure
-More energy to power heart
-Lower pressure to alveoli
-Higher pressure to body cells (more risk of damage)
What circulatory system do insects have?
Open single circulation
What circulatory system do fish have?
-Closed single circulation
What circulatory system do mammals have?
-Closed double
What happens when pressuring in atria>ventricle?
Left atrium contracts, pushing bicuspid open, pushing blood to left ventricle
What happens when pressure in aorta>ventricle?
Blood caught in ‘cup’ of semilunar valves, closing them, preventing backflow
What happens when pressure in ventricle>atria?
Left ventricle contracts, blood caught in ‘cup’ of bicuspid, bicuspid shuts, preventing backflow
What happens when pressure in ventricle>aorta?
Left Ventricle contracts, semilunar valves opens
What is the cardiac cycle?
A sequence of events that make up one heartbeat
What are the 3 phases of the cardiac cycle?
-Ventricular diastole
-Atrial systole
-Ventricular systole
What is systole?
Muscle contraction
What is diastole?
Muscle relaxation
What are the characteristics of ventricular diastole?
-Muscles relax
-Volume increases
-Pressure decreases
-Semilunar valves close
-Atrioventricular valves open