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Overview of the Circulatory System

The circulatory system, also known as the cardiovascular system, transports important substances and nutrients throughout the body via the blood. It is composed of three main systems - the heart, lungs, and blood vessels. The heart pumps oxygenated blood received from the lungs through the systemic circulation to organs and tissues via arteries and veins. It also pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs through the pulmonary circulation to be reoxygenated before repeating the cycle. Plants have a vascular system of xylem and phloem tissues that allow efficient transport of water and nutrients throughout the plant.

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Overview of the Circulatory System

The circulatory system, also known as the cardiovascular system, transports important substances and nutrients throughout the body via the blood. It is composed of three main systems - the heart, lungs, and blood vessels. The heart pumps oxygenated blood received from the lungs through the systemic circulation to organs and tissues via arteries and veins. It also pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs through the pulmonary circulation to be reoxygenated before repeating the cycle. Plants have a vascular system of xylem and phloem tissues that allow efficient transport of water and nutrients throughout the plant.

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Circulatory

system

Class objectives:
- Describe the functions of organs in
circulatory system.
- Explain how substances are transported in
plants and animals.
• Function: Transport
important substances and
nutrients through the body
• Also known as the
cardiovascular system, as
simply a highway for blood
• It is made up of three
independent systems that
work together:
1. the heart (cardiovascular)
2. lungs (pulmonary)
3. arteries, veins, coronary
and portal vessels
(systemic)

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Vessels

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Heart

Cardiac cycle
ventricles contract (systole):
sending blood into the
pulmonary and systemic
circulation
ventricles relax (diastole): and
fill with blood from the atrium.
Humans have
doble circulation:
systemic and
pulmonary

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Systemic circulation
• Blood travels out of the left ventricle, to the aorta, to every organ and tissue
in the body, and then back to the right atrium.
• Once in the arteries, blood flows to smaller arterioles and then to capillaries.
While in the capillaries, the bloodstream delivers oxygen and nutrients to the
body's cells and picks up waste materials. Blood then goes back through the
capillaries into venules, and then to larger veins until it reaches the vena
cavae.
• Blood from the head and arms returns to the heart through the superior vena
cava, and blood from the lower parts of the body returns through the inferior
vena cava. Both vena cavae deliver this oxygen-depleted blood into the right
atrium. From here the blood exits to fill the right ventricle, ready to be
pumped into the pulmonary circulation for more oxygen.
Pulmonary circulation
• blood low in oxygen but high in carbon dioxide is pumped out the right ventricle
into the pulmonary artery, which branches off in two directions. The right
branch goes to the right lung, and vice versa.
• In the lungs, the branches divide further into capillaries. Blood flows more
slowly through these tiny vessels, allowing time for gases to be exchanged
between the capillary walls and the millions of alveoli, the tiny air sacs in the
lungs.
• During the process called oxygenation, oxygen is taken up by the bloodstream.
Oxygen locks onto a molecule called hemoglobin in the red blood cells. The
newly oxygenated blood leaves the lungs through the pulmonary veins and
heads back to the heart. It enters the heart in the left atrium, then fills the left
ventricle so it can be pumped into the systemic circulation.
Gas
Exchange
Do plants have circulatory system?
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A vascular plant has specialized
Plants tissues - xylem and phloem -
that allow it to efficiently pass
water and nutrients from one
part of the plant to the other
Links to complete worksheet
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