Biology unit 9 Flashcards

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Circulatory system #1

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  • allows us to transport nutrients, waste products and gases
  • deoxygenated blood is pumped to the lungs where it is oxygenated and CO2 is removed
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Our circulatory system #2

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  • oxygenated blood flows back to the heart and is pumped to body cells
  • oxygen diffuses into body cells and co2 diffuses into the blood. The blood then flows back to the heart to repeat the cycle
  • this is known as a double circulatory system as there are two circuits.
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How heart can be monitored

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  • using a stethoscope you can listen for if the valves are opening and closing correctly
  • using an electrocardiogram (ECG) we can measure the electrical signal from the heart to see if it is contracting in a healthy rhythm.
  • measuring beats per min or blood pressure
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Three types of blood vessels

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Arteries veins and capillaries

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Arteries

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Carry blood away from the heart
Arteries can stretch
You feel this as a pulse
Blood in arteries is under high pressure
Arteries have a small lumen with thick, elastic walls to handle the high blood pressures.

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Veins

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Carry blood back to your heart
Contains valves
Valves prevent back flow of blood
Blood is squeezed back towards the heart by the action of the skeletal muscles
Large lumen and relatively thin walls as blood pressure is lower

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Capillaries

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Form a huge network linking arteries and vein
Allows blood to access every cell in our body
Walls are only 1 cell thick, reducing diffusion distance

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8
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Double circulatory system in mammals #1

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One transport system carries blood from your heart to your lungs and back again
The other transport system carries blood from your heart to all other organ of your body and back again.

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9
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Animals #2

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It makes our circulatory system very effient as oxygenated and deoxygenated blood don’t mix.
More areas of your body will receive oxygenated blood more quickly as blood can be sent off to different parts of the body at a high pressure

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10
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Blood vessels in the liver

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The hepatic artery carries oxygenated blood to the liver
The hepatic vein carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart
The hepatic portal vein carries nutrient rich blood from the intestines to the liver
Hepatic = always liver

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Blood vessels in the kidneys

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Oxygenated blood is carried to the kidneys in the renal artery
Deoxygenated blood is carried back to the heart in the Renal vein
Renal = kidneys

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12
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4 major components of blood

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Red blood cells
White blood cells
Plasma
Platelets

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Red blood cells

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Transport oxygen from the lungs to every cell in the rest of the body

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14
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White blood cell

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Produces antibodies that help to protect against infection and foreign pathogens

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15
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Coronary heart disease definition

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Damage or disease in the heart’s major blood vessels.
The usual cause is the build-up of plaque. This causes coronary arteries to narrow, limiting blood flow to the heart.

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16
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Coronary heart disease causes

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Overweight
Physical inactivity
Unhealthily eating
Smoking tobacco

17
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What causes your blood to clot?

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Blood clot forms as the bodies ways of stopping bleeding from damaged blood vessels and promote healing usually from an injury or a medical procedure/surgeries.

18
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Why is the ability for our blood to clot important?

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Blood clotting is important process that prevents excessive bleeding when blood vessel is injured. Platelets and protein in your plasma work together to stop the bleeding by forming a clot over the injury.

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Explain why the conversion of the protein fibrinogen to fibrin to form a mesh is required for blood clotting

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Platelets release chemicals that calls a soluble fibrinogen proteins to convert into insoluble fibrin and insoluble mesh across the wound, trapping red blood cells and therefore forming a clot

20
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White blood cells - phagocytes

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Phagocytes- surround and kill microorganisms ingest foreign material and remove dead cells

21
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White blood cells - lymphocytes

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Lymphocytes- responsible for antibody production, direct cell medicated killing of virus - infected and tumour cells, and regulation of the immune response.