Blood & Circulatory System
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- Created on: 18-02-16 16:54
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- Blood & Circulatory system
- Red Blood Cells
- Small Diameter
- Relatively thick
- Large Surface Area to Volume ratio
- Doughnut shaped
- No nucleus
- In the lungs heamoglobin reacts with oxygen to become oxy heamoglobin
- Platelets
- Help your blood clot when you cut yourself
- Prevents bacteria entering the wound
- Help your blood clot when you cut yourself
- Arteries
- Thick
- Muscular
- elastic wall
- Veins
- Thinner wall
- have valves
- Double circulatory system
- Right side of the heart to lungs
- Left side of the heart to the rest of the body
- Left side of the heart has more muscle
- Plasma
- Carries digested food
- Chlorestrol
- Hormones
- Antibodies
- excess water
- waste products
- excess heat
- Carries digested food
- Atrium and ventrices
- Atrium receives from veins
- Ventricles pump to arteries
- Red Blood Cells
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