Features of transport systems
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- Created on: 20-03-16 21:30
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- Features of transport systems
- Transport medium
- E.g blood
- Normally liquid based on water
- Water readily dissolves substances, can be moved around easily
- Can be a gas e.g. air
- Mass transport
- Transport medium moved around in bulk
- Over large distances
- More rapid than diffusion
- Closed system of tubular vessels
- Contains transport medium
- Forms branching network
- Distributes to all parts of organism
- Mechanism for moving transport medium
- Requires pressure diffrence
- Within vessels
- Between different parts of system
- Transport medium
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