BIOL-1507EL Lecture 8: BODY systeMS

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In chapter 39 introduction to animal organization and physiology. Like other mammals, humans have both pulmonary and systemic circulatory pathways: humans also have a typically mammalian four chambered heart with right and left atria and ventricles, read about heart stucture from text figure. Systemic circulation: blood returning from the pulmonary circulation is oxygenated. The posterior vena cava returns blood from the remainder of the systemic circulation. A portal system: one that begins and ends in capillaries. The human body has only one such major system, the hepatic portal system (system of veins carrying blood from capillaries of intestine to the liver, in vertebrates) Human blood: there are three types of cells within blood, red blood cells: erythrocytes, white blood cells: leukocytes, platelets: thrombocytes. So small that 1mm2 of blood contains 5 million. Smaller: the digestive system is complex and each part has a specific function.

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