Animal Transport Flashcards
Why is membrane diffusion too slow to satisfy needs in multicellular (4)?
- Low SA:vol.
- High metabolic rate.
- Some cells deep within body = long diff pathway.
- Tough outer surface so gases can’t diffuse through their skin.
What is mass flow?
Bulk movement of blood in a specialised transport system to carry materials from organisms’ specialised exchange organs to body cells.
3 features of every mass flow system:-
- Suitable medium to carry materials (blood).
- A pump (e.g. heart) for moving blood within the vessels.
- Valves to maintain flow in one direction.
2 things some MF systems also have:-
- Respiratory pigment e.g haemoglobin which increases transportable O volume.
- vessel system that forms a branching network to distribute blood to all parts of the body.
What occurs in an open circulatory system?
Blood doesn’t flow through blood vessels, but instead bathes the tissues directly whilst held in a cavity called the haemocoel.
Open system process in insects (4):-
- long dorsal (top) tube shaped heart runs the body length.
- blood pumped out at low pressure into haemocoel.
- materials directly exchanged between blood + cells.
- blood returns to heart slowly.
Why is no respiratory pigment needed in insects?
O2 diffuses directly to the tissues from trachea so blood doesn’t transport O2/CO2.
Closed system:-
Blood moves in vessels. Two types, single circulation (blood passes through heart once) and double circulation (twice).
Single circulation system in a fish (4):-
- ventricle of heart pumps deoxygenated blood to gills where its pressure falls.
- oxygenated carried to the tissues.
- from there, deox returns to the atrium of the heart.
- blood moves to ventricles, circulation starts again.
What colours represent deoxygenated and oxygenated blood?
Blue = deoxygenated. Red = oxygenated.
Single closed circulation in earthworms (3):-
- Closed, even though though a relatively simple organism.
- blood moves forward in a dorsal vessel and back in a ventral vessel.
- blood moves through the vessels by the the pumping action of 5 pseudo hearts.
Double closed in mammals (5):-
- blood pumped by muscular hearts, under high pressure = rapid flow rate.
- organs not in direct contact w/ blood but bathed in tissue fluod seeping out from thin-walled capillaries.
- blood contains O carrying resp pigment.
- blood pressure reduced in lungs-its pressure would be too low to make circulation in rest of body.
- so blood returns to heart and its pressure is raised again, to pump it to the rest of the body.
Pulmonary circulation:-
Right side of heart. Consists of all vessels concerned with pumping blood between heart and lungs.
Systemic circulation:-
Left side of heart, consists of all vessels concerned with pumping blood between the heart and body (exc lungs).
What occurs in pulmonary?
Right side pumps deoxy blood to lungs.
Oxy returns to left side of heart.
What occurs in systemic?
Left side pumps oxy blood to tissues.
Deoxy then returns to the right side.
4 advs of double circulation:-
- sustained high blood pressure in systemic.
- faster circulation in systemic.
- oxy and deoxy kept separate.
- increased O distribution which can maintain a higher metabolic rate.
What is the heart made of?
Specialised cardiac muscle which has its own blood supply and which is able to continuously contract and relax on its own.
How does heart muscle obtain the good supply of blood it needs for nutrients and O2 for contraction?
A dense capillary network that receives blood from coronary arteries.
Heart structure (4):-
- heart is, in effect 2 side by side pumps.
- left side of heart receives oxygenated blood from the heart and body and pumps it to the body.
- right side receives deox from body and pumps it to the lungs to pick up oxygen.
- 2 thin walled collecting chambers (atria) above 2 thick-walled pumping chambers (ventricles).
What is the cardiac cycle?
The sequence of event that take place during one heartbeat.
What does the pumping action of the heart consist of?
Alternating contractions (systole) and relaxations (diastole).
How long does each cycle last in average?
0.8 secs.
What is cardiac output?
The volume of blood pumped around the body.
What 2 factors is cardiac output dependent on?
Stroke volume and heart rate.
What is stroke volume?
The volume of blood pumped by the left ventricle in 1 heartbeat (typical value for adult a rest = 75ml).
What is the typical adult heart rate?
70bpm
How do you calculate cardiac output?
Stroke volume (ml) x heart rate (bpm)
What is the typical resting cardiac output?
4-6 litres per minute. Can rise to as much as 40l in highly trained endurance athletes.
What do valves do?
Prevent backflow of blood.
How do valves work?
Close under high pressure.
What are the 3 valve types in the cardio-vascular system?
- Atrio-ventricular valves (bicuspid and tricuspid).
- Semi-lunar valves- at the base of the aorta and pulmonary arteries.
- semi-lunar valves in all the veins.
What is blood made up of?
55% plasma and 45% cells.
What is plasma made up of?
90% water and 10% dissolved solutes eg CO2, O2, digested food products, plasma proteins, hormones, fibrinogen and antibodies.
What does plasma also have a role in?
Heat distribution throughout the body.
What is the other name for red blood cells? The
Erythrocytes
What is the other name for white blood cells?
Leucocytes
What is RBC’s large haemoglobing amouny for?
Transporting oxygen as oxyhaemoglobin
What is the benefit of RBC’s flattened, biconcave disc shape?
Larger surface area so more O2 can diffuse across membrane. Thin centre reduces diffusion distance, speeding up GE.
Benfit of RBC’s lack of nucleus or organelles:-
Maximises space for haemoglobin, allowing more O to be transported.
Benefit RBC’s nearly as large as capillary 6-8um diameter:-
Slows blood flow to enable diffusion of O
What are the 2 white blood cell types?
Granulocytes and agranulocytes/lymphocytes.
Granulocytes:-
Phagocytic and engulf bacteria to fight infection. Have lobed nuclei.
Agranulocytes/lymphocytes:-
Produce antibodies and antitoxins to fight infection and provide disease immunity. Have spherical nuclei.
Granulocyte apperance:-
Large purple blob with fragmented shape within.
Agranulocytes appearance:-
Large purple blob with round, solid shape inside.
Red blood cell appearance:-
Small red blob
What are the 5 blood vessel types?
Arteries Arterioles Capillaries Venules Veins
What is the structural difference between arteries and veins?
Proportion of each layer is different and vein has a large irregular lumen compared to artery’s small round lumen.
Artery and vein structure layers from outside to centre:-
Tunica externa. Tuncia media. Tunica intima. Endothelium. Lumen.
Small round lumen in artery:-
Increases blood flow resistamce, helping maintain a high pressure as the blood gets further away from the heart’s influence.
Endothelium:-
Single layer of cells producing a smooth lining to reduce friction and, therefore, resistance to flow.