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Animal transport and cardiovascular biology

Unit B09 · 3 lessons published so far.

• The heart and the cardiac cycle: pressure decides everything
  Why large active animals need a mass transport system, how double circulation differs from single, the structure of the mammalian heart including the…
• Blood vessels and tissue fluid: what leaks out and what comes back
  The structure of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules and veins related to function and to the pressure each carries; why capillary walls are…
• Haemoglobin: an S-shaped curve and everything it explains
  Haemoglobin as a conjugated globular protein, cooperative binding and the sigmoid dissociation curve, reading loading and unloading from the curve…

Practical work that lands here

• Dissection and biological drawing