Transport In Animals Flashcards
Why do Multicellular organisms need a transport system?
- They have a low surface area to volume ratio.
- High metabolic rate.
- Molecules such as hormones may be made in one place but needed in another.
What is a single circulatory system? and give an example of an animal with a single circulatory system.
- Blood only passes through the heart once for each complete circuit of the body.
- E.g Fish, The heart pumps blood to the gills (to pick up oxygen) and then on through the rest of the body (to deliver the oxygen) in a single circuit.
What is a double circulatory and an example of it?
- Blood passes through the heart twice for each complete circuit of the body.
- Eg mammals. Right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs (to pick up oxygen). From the lungs it travels to the left side of the heart which pumps the blood to the rest of the body.
What is the advantage of the double circulatory system?
- The heart can give the blood an extra push between the lungs and the rest of the body.
- This makes blood travel faster, so oxygen is delivers to the tissues faster.
What is a closed circulatory system and which animals have them?
- Where the blood is enclosed inside blood vessels.
- Fish and mammals have this.
What is a open circulatory system and which animals have this?
- When blood isn’t enclosed in blood vessels all the time. Instead, it flows freely in the body cavity.
- E.g insects, Artery opens up into to the body cavity, blood flows around the insects organs.
Arteries function and structure
- adapted to carrying blood away from the heart to the rest of the body
- thick walled to withstand high blood pressure
- contain elastic tissue which allows them to stretch and recoil thus smoothing blood flow
- contain smooth muscle which enables them to vary blood flow
- lined with smooth endothelium to reduce friction and ease flow of blood
- Endothelium-smooth-less friction with blood.
Arteriolar function and structure
- branch off arteries
- have thinner and less muscular walls
- their role is to feed blood into capillaries
Capillaries structure and function
- smallest blood vessels
- Arterioles branch into capillaries.
- site of metabolic exchange
- only one cell thick for fast exchange of substances.
- Lumen=size of red blood cell meaning diffusion distance from inside of red blood cell (HB) to tissue fluid is small.
- Leaky
Venules structure and function
- Very thin walls.
- Join together to form veins.
Veins structure and function
- carry blood from the body to the heart
- wide lumen to maximise volume of blood carried to the heart
- thin walled as blood is under low pressure
- contain valves to prevent backflow of blood
What is tissue fluid and what is it made from?
- The fluid that surrounds cells in tissues.
- Made from substances that leave the blood plasma e.g oxygen, water and nutrients.
- Doesn’t contain red blood cells or large proteins because they’re too large to be pushed out of the capillary walls.
How is tissue fluid formed?
- Diffusion.
- Down a concentration gradient.
- Hydrostatic pressure in the capillary is higher than the hydrostatic pressure in the tissue fluid.
- Capillary walls are leaky.
- Fluid is forced out of capillary from high pressure to low pressure.
- As the fluid moves out, glucose, oxygen and small molecules leave with the fluid.
- Large proteins and red blood cells stay in the capillary because they are too big to fit through the capillary walls.
What is a lymphatic system and what does it do?
- A drainage system made up of lymph vessels.
- Returns the excess fluid to the blood…
What are red blood cells in (blood,tissue fluid and lymph)
- Blood ✅
- Tissue fluid ❌
- Lymph ❌
What are white blood cells in (blood,tissue fluid and lymph)
- Blood ✅
- Tissue fluid, Very few but ✅
- Lymph✅
What are platelets in (blood,tissue fluid and lymph)
- Blood ✅
- Tissue fluid ❌
- Lymph ❌
What are proteins in (blood,tissue fluid and lymph)
- Blood ✅.
- Tissue fluid, very few but ✅.
- Lymph, only antibodies but ✅.
What is water in (blood,tissue fluid and lymph)
- Blood ✅.
- Tissue fluid ✅.
- Lymph ✅.
What are dissolved solutes in (blood,tissue fluid and lymph)
- Blood ✅
- Tissue fluid ✅
- Lymph ✅