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1
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What does blood contain?

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Blood plasma, white blood cells, red blood cells

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2
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What does blood transport?

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Nutrients, oxygen and carbon dioxide

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What allows blood to transport oxygen?

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It’s biconcave shape, lack of a nucleus and haemoglobin

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What does oxygen and haemoglobin form?

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Oxyhaemoglobin

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What is a pathogen?

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A disease causing microbe

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What are the two type of white blood cells?

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Lymphocytes and Phagocytes

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What is phagocytosis?

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When phagocytes engulf and digest pathogens

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What do lymphocytes produce?

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Anti-bodies specific to pathogens

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What carries deoxygenated blood to the heart?

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Vena Cava

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What carries deoxygenated blood from the heart?

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Pulmonary Artery

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What carries oxygenated blood to the heart?

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Pulmonary Vein

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What carries oxygenated blood away from the heart?

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Aorta

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Where is deoxygenated blood received in the heart?

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Right Atrium

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Where does deoxygenated blood leave the heart?

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Right ventricle

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Where does oxygenated blood enter the heart?

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Left Atrium

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Where does oxygenated blood leave the heart?

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Left Ventricle

17
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What is the structure of an Artery?

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Has a thick muscular wall, a narrow central channel and carries blood under high pressures away from the heart.

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What is the structure of a vein?

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Contain valves stopping blood backflow, thinner walls, a wider channel and carry blood under low pressure to the heart.

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What is the structure of a blood capillary?

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Thin walled with a large surface area allowing for efficient exchange of materials

20
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What supplies the heart with oxygenated blood?

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The coronary artery

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