WarmUp

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the 3 main types of blood cells? What
are their functions? How would you identify
them?

2. What is blood plasma – what is its function?

Collect materials to complete your blood lab and begin

working!!!
• SWB/IP book from counter (p.49)
• Slides and Blood figures up on front desk.
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37-3 The Respiratory
System

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 37-3 The Respiratory System The Human Respiratory System

The respiratory system consists of the:

Pharynx
Nose Larynx
Mouth Trache
aLungs
Epiglottis
Bronchus

Bronchioles

Diaphragm
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 37-3 The Respiratory System What Is Respiration?

What Is Respiration?
In biology, respiration means different things.
Cellular respiration is the release of energy from the
breakdown of food in the presence of oxygen
(occurs in the?????)
At the organism level, respiration is the process of gas
exchange—the release of carbon dioxide and the uptake of
oxygen that occurs between RBCs and alveoli

Breathing is the actual mechanical intake of air

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BREATHING
Lungs are sealed
in pleural
membranes inside
the chest cavity.
At the bottom of
the cavity is a
large, flat muscle
known as the
diaphragm.

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During inhalation, the

diaphragm contracts and
the rib cage rises up.
This expands the volume of
the chest cavity.
The chest cavity is sealed,
so this creates a partial
vacuum inside the cavity.
Atmospheric pressure fills
the lungs as air rushes into
the breathing passages.
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Often exhaling is a Air Exhaled

passive event.
When the rib cage Rib cage
lowers
lowers and the
diaphragm relaxes,
pressure in the chest
cavity is greater than
atmospheric pressure.
Air is pushed out of the
lungs.
Exhalation
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 37-3 The Respiratory System How Breathing Is Controlled

How Breathing Is Controlled

Breathing is controlled by
the medulla oblongata.
The medulla oblongata
monitors carbon dioxide in
the blood.
As carbon dioxide
increases, nerve impulses
make the diaphragm
contract, bringing air into the
lungs.
The higher the carbon
dioxide level, the stronger
the impulses.
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So what’s a hiccup?

•Longest bout of hiccups – 68 years!!!

•Check out IPp 50 for more info!

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Lung Capacity Lab!! (we’ll do next class)

Objective
Measure the amount of air your lungs can hold

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RESPIRATION
Alveoli are grouped in
clusters. Pulmonary
artery
A network of capillaries
surrounds each
alveolus. Pulmonary
vein

Capillaries

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 37-3 The Respiratory System Gas Exchange

RESPIRATION O2
Gas exchange takes
place in the alveoli. CO2
Oxygen diffuses into the
blood.
Carbon dioxide in the
blood diffuses into the
alveolus.
Let’s examine this up close
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