Portal System
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The diagram below represents the simplified pathway of the circulation of blood. Study the same and answer the question that follow:
(a) Name the blood vessels labelled 1 and 2.
(b) State function of blood vessels labelled 5 and 8
(c) What is the importance of the blood vessel labelled 6?
(d) Which blood vessel will contain a high amount of glucose and amino acids after a meal?
(e) Draw a diagram of the different blood cells as seen in a smear of human blood.
The following simplified diagram refers to the outline plan of the circulation of blood in a mammal. Study the diagram and write the number and the name of the blood vessel mentioned in each case.
(a) Several hours after a meal containing a lot of protein, which vessel will contain the highest concentration of urea?
(b) Which vessel would contain the highest concentration of amino acids and glucose soon after a meal?
(a) Blood vessels
(b) Lymph
(c) Heart
Reason: Bile juices provide the alkaline environment for trypsin to act.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A.
- A is true but R is false.
- A and R are false.
(b) Explain the physiological process as mentioned above in (a).
Give the biological/technical term for the following.
The vein which drains the blood from the intestine to liver.
How many blood vessels arises from heart ? And what is photolysis?
Assertion (A): A complex of blood vessels beginning and ending in capillaries through which blood circulates before returning to the heart is called a portal system.
Reason (R): All mammals have a hepatic portal system.
Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A.
A is true but R is false.
Both A and R is false.
Both A and R is true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
- Hepatic artery
- Hepatic portal vein
- Hepatic vein
- Lacteal
- Vena cava
- Hepatic veins
- Portal vein
- Veins
- Capillaries
Rewrite the complete sentence by inserting the correct word in the space indicated.
The blood vessel that begins and ends in capillaries is the