Bird’s air sack
- Not for gas exchange
- Air reserve for flying
- Lungs does the respiration
Blood Pressure
- SDP / DBP: 120/80
- Causes
- Eat much salt
- High fats in blood
- Old age
- Diabetes
- Smoking / Alcohol
- Stress
- Less sleep
Leukemia
- Causes
- Receiving too much radiation for an extended period of time
- Receiving too much benzene ( smell of oil )
- Genetic condition: e.g. Down Syndrome
Diabetes
- Causes
- Lack of insulin
- Insulin not working: pancreas has problems
- Insulin receptor not working
- Probable cause
- Too much sugar & less exercise
- Obesity
- Old age
- Immune system destroys the cells
- Genetics
Anemia
- Causes
- Less RBC
- RBC weird shape
- Iron deficiency
- Vitamin B9 (Folic acid) and B12 (Cobalamin) deficiency
Salt
- Much salt = Much blood
- Needs pressure to pump
- = High blood pressure
Circulatory
- Oxygen comes back to the left
- Carbon Dioxide comes back to the right
Urea
- Enters kidney = High urea
- Leaves kidney = Low urea
- Essentially like a filter filtering out the urea
X-linked conditions
- Color blindness
- Hemophilia
- G6PD
- Duchenne
Dicot & Monocot