BIO 102 Lecture 10: Chapter 32 Notes

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Blood: liquid that serves as a medium of transport for gases, nutrients, and cellular wastes. Blood vessels: consisting of arteries that carry blood away from the heart, veins that carry blood to the heart and capillaries that link arteries and veins and exchange materials through their walls. Closed circulatory system: confines the blood to the heart and to the vessels that carry blood throughout the body. Atria/atrium: collect blood, contractions of the atria send blood to the ventricles, whose chambers" contractions circulate blood through the lungs and the rest of the body. Double circulation: creates two separate circuits of blood: carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen, and then back to the heart. body, where oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide. Veins: vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries: vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Their walls are thicker and more elastic than veins.

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