Transport In Animals Flashcards
How does size affect the means in which nutrients and wastes can be transported to/from cells?
As some organisms are small enough to use simple diffusion to transport wastes and nutrients, due to their large SA:Vol ratio
Other larger multicellular organisms have more complicated transport systems to carry out their task due to their small SA: Vol ratio
What are the three size different that have different means in which nutrients and wastes can be transported to/from cells?
Very small/flattened animals
Small organisms
Large and/or metabolically more active organisms
What is transport?
The movement of nutrients and O2 into the cells and movement of wastes and CO2 out of cells to be expelled from the body.
What do organism require through transport to survive?
Organisms require means of supplying nutrients such as glucose and gases such as oxygen to survive and removing wastes such as CO2 and wastes from each of their cells
What are considered very small/flattened animals?
These can be animals such as single celled
paramecium and amoeba or very flattened
organisms such as flatworms/planarians and
jellyfish.
What habitat do small flattened animals live in?
Aquatic or high moisture
How do flattened animals maximise the transport of gases in and out?
The environment circulates materials past cells, sometimes organisms can create a current that brings materials past its body.
How does transport occur in small/thin/flattened animals?
Due to being small/thin/flattened these animals have a have large SA:Vol ratio and therefore substances can readily diffuse in/out of their bodies.
What are characteristics do small/flatten animals?
No heart, no blood vessel and no blood.
Limited by the requirement of high moisture content in their environment.
What is considered a small organisms?
Insects and snails
What habitat to do small organisms live in?
Aquatic and terrestrial
Do small organisms have open or closed systems?
Open circulatory systems
What is an open circulatory system?
Fluids move slowly at low pressure, it doesn’t contain cells and is not involved in the transport of gases. The heart pumps the blood like fluid into large spaces.the fluid bathes the cells supplying them with nutrients and then it re enters the heart.
What is does an open circulatory system do in small organisms?
Fluids circulate in the transport system are not fully enclosed in blood vessel. One or more muscular hearts pump body fluids to maintain circulation
What are closed circulatory systems?
No free floating blood bathing the body organs
What is considered as a large and/or metabolically active organisms?
Earthworms, fish, reptiles and mammals
And can live in aquatic or terrestrial environments
How do closed circulatory systems work in large animals?
Closed circulation as blood is enclosed in the heart and blood vessels. Blood and fluids flows through a system of blood vessels and is pumped by the heart under pressure.
What does blood do?
Capacity to carry nutrients, gases and waste products.
What does the heart of a large animal do?
Pumps blood