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comparative physiology

Lecture 5

Circulatory system:

·      Two half’s of the heart the left and right

o   Left half is for the systemic system

o   Right half is for the pulmonary system

·      Atrium receives the blood, and the ventricle pumps blood out

·      Closed circulatory system: blood stays inside the circulatory system

o   Distribution of specific ions or nutrients occurs only at specific regions the capillaries. 

·      Mammals and birds have 4 chambers two atria and two ventricles

o   Therefore there are two loops

·      In fishes there is only a two chambered heart… only a single atium and a ventricle

o   There is a sinus venosus

§  Bony, jawless, n ___ have this type of heart

o   Blood leaves ventricles and goes to gills then goes to the rest of the body

o   There are two capillary beds in series… one at the gills the other at the body parts

o   Blood goes from sinus anosus into the atrium into the ventricle into another expansion of a blood vessel then into the aorta

·      In amphibia: frogs have 3 chambers!

o   Two atria and only one ventricle

§  Some blood that leaves ventricle goes to skin some goes to the lungs- this blood pours out into either the left or right atrium

ú  Which atrium it goes to depends on where the capillaries are located

§  Some blood goes into the gut/muscles then back to the right atrium

§  There are many groves that tend (trys) to keep deoxygenated and oxygenated blood seperate

·      Reptilia also have three chambers – lizards snakes and many tutrles

o   Two atria and a ventricle

o   There is a partial wall that separates the two halves of the ventricle.  It is not a full wall

§  Helps avoid mixing of deoxygenated and oxygenated blood

·      Crocodilian heart has 4 chambers

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·      Resistance to blood flow in blood vessels depends on diameter

·      Blood coming from lungs tends to be sent to systemic loop, de oxygenated blood tends to be sent to the pulmonary loop

·      Vertebrates have closed circulatory systems

·      Closed circulatory systems are very effective in distrubiting blood in a specific pattern, ensures blood will pick up oxygen at a certain location give off co2 and pick up nutrients at a certain location and deliver it to all over the body

o   Pushing blood through all the tubing requires a lot of pressure= muscle contraction in heart using up a lot of atp, animal must eat alot

·      Open circulatory system.  They have a heart, and have a fluid like blood. Some have vessels and some don’t.

o   Hemolymph= is open circulatory blood

o   Very little pressure is required, heart does not need to use up a lot of at, so the animal doesn’t need to eat too much

o   There are no fixed pathways that the blood flows through, and because of this there is not nearly as good a guarantee that every part of the body will receive nutrients and gasses on a regular basis

·      Invertebrates has an enormous variation in circulatory system plan

o   most of the annelid worms have closed circulatory systems

o   cephalopoda (octopus, squid, cuttle fish, chambered mol.. )

o   most invertabrates have open circulatory system



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