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Diffusion may be simple, whereby solutes travel through the phospholipids in the cell membrane as they have the same polarity as a lipid or are small enough to do so.Or, diffusion is faciliated and this i...

A tropism is a growth in a plant in response to a stimulus. The stimulus could be a change in the direction of light or a water source. To recap, a stimulus is a change in the environment of an organism t...

The blood in the capillary has just returned to the lungs from the rest of the body, so contains a low concentration of oxygen. The alveolus contains air that has just been breathed in by ventilation, so ...

Aorta --> systemic circulation [branches in order: coronary artery (to supply the heart), carotid artery (to supply the head), hepatic artery (to supply the liver), mesenteric artery (to supply the gut...

• Thin alveolar walls for O2 and CO2 to travel through - To travel across the membrane, gases have to be dissolved, so the alveolar walls are moist - Large surface area to volume ratio allows for maxi...