Understanding the Heart
- 1. Understanding the Heart By: Professor Wallice
- 2. The Heart Function: a pump to send oxygen- rich blood, which contains oxygen and nutrients that every cell in your body need to survive, to all parts of your body.
- 3. Fish Fish have a two-chambered heart that pumps the blood to the gills and from there it goes on to the rest of the body.
- 4. Amphibians Have a three-chambered heart and a double circulatory system which is used, but the heart is not always completely separated into two pumps
- 5. Human Each time the heart contracts it does with all its force. In skeletal muscles, the principle of gradation is present.
- 6. 1 day = 100,000 beats + 4,300 gallons of blood pumped Fact:
- 7. To Review: What is the function of the heart? What are the differences between Amphibian, Human, and Fish hearts?