Homeostatic Mechanisms 1 (function)
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Homeostatic Mechanisms 1 (function)
Example 2: Gas Exchange
Example 1: Gas Exchange in Plants
A developmental response of maize roots to flooding and oxygen deprivation
Vascularcylinder
Air tubes
Epidermis
100 m 100 m(a) Control root (aerated) (b) Experimental root (nonaerated)
Gas Exchange in Plants: Stomates
By controlling stomate opening/closing, terrestrial plants control gas exchange.
Great for land….…What about aquatic plants?No/few stomates on submerged leaves. Water is the exhange medium
Quick Check: Make Sure You Can1. Explain why gas exchange is necessary in
plants.2. Explain how stomates regulate the exchange
of gases in plants.3. Predict the effects of changing
concentrations of gases on the rate of gas exchange in plants.
Example 2: Gas Exchange in Animals
Gas Exchange in AnimalsGas exchange in animals depends on a respiratory surface:Moist: easy diffusion, functional cell membranes are wet.High surface area: Increase the rate of gas exchange. Diffusion moves O2 & CO2
High surface area?High surface area!
Where have we heard that before?
Gas exchange in many forms…one-celled amphibians echinoderms
insects fish mammals
endotherm vs. ectothermsize
cilia
water vs. land ••
Evolution of gas exchange structures
external systems with lots of surface area exposed to aquatic environment
Aquatic organisms
moist internal respiratory tissues with lots of surface area
Terrestrial
Gas Exchange in Water: Gills
Counter current exchange system• Water carrying gas flows in one direction,
blood flows in opposite direction
just keepswimming….
Why does it workcounter current?
Adaptation!
• Blood & water flow in opposite directions– maintains diffusion gradient over whole length of gill
capillary– maximizing O2 transfer from water to blood
water
blood
How counter current exchange works
front back
blood
100%15%
5%90%
70% 40%
60% 30%
100%
5%
50%
50%
70%
30%
watercounter-current
concurrent
Gas Exchange on Land• Advantages of terrestrial life
– air has many advantages over water• higher concentration of O2 : O2 & CO2 diffuse much
faster in air –respiratory surfaces exposed to air do not have to
be ventilated as thoroughly as gills• air is much lighter than water & much easier to
pump–expend less energy moving air
• Disadvantages– keeping large respiratory surface moist
causes high water loss• reduce water loss by keeping lungs internal
Why don’t land animals
use gills?
Terrestrial adaptations
• air tubes branching throughout body• gas exchanged by diffusion across
moist cells lining terminal ends, not through open circulatory system
Tracheae
Lungs Exchange tissue:spongy texture, honeycombed with moist epithelium
Why is this exchangewith the environment
RISKY?
Alveoli• Gas exchange across thin epithelium of
millions of alveoli– total surface area in humans ~100 m2
Negative pressure breathing• Breathing due to changing pressures in lungs
– air flows from higher pressure to lower pressure– pulling air instead of pushing it
Mechanics of breathing • Air enters nostrils
– filtered by hairs, warmed & humidified– sampled for odors
• Pharynx glottis larynx (vocal cords) trachea (windpipe) bronchi bronchioles air sacs (alveoli)
• Epithelial lining covered by cilia & thin film of mucus– mucus traps dust, pollen,
particulates– beating cilia move mucus upward
to pharynx, where it is swallowed
don’t wantto have to think
to breathe!Autonomic breathing control• Medulla sets rhythm & pons moderates it
– coordinate respiratory, cardiovascular systems & metabolic demands
• Nerve sensors in walls of aorta & carotid arteries in neck detect O2 & CO2 in blood
Medulla monitors blood• Monitors CO2 level of blood
– measures pH of blood & cerebrospinal fluid bathing brain
• CO2 + H2O H2CO3 (carbonic acid)• if pH decreases then
increase depth & rate of breathing & excess CO2 is eliminated in exhaled air
Breathing and Homeostasis• Homeostasis
– keeping the internal environment of the body balanced
– need to balance O2 in and CO2 out– need to balance energy (ATP) production
• Exercise– breathe faster
• need more ATP• bring in more O2 & remove more CO2
• Disease– poor lung or heart function = breathe faster
• need to work harder to bring in O2 & remove CO2
O2
ATP
CO2
Diffusion of gases
• Concentration gradient & pressure drives movement of gases into & out of blood at both lungs & body tissue
blood lungs
CO2
O2
CO2
O2
blood body
CO2
O2
CO2
O2
capillaries in lungs capillaries in muscle
Inhaled air Exhaled air
160 0.2O2 CO2
O2 CO2
O2 CO2
O2 CO2 O2 CO2
O2 CO2 O2 CO2
O2 CO2
40 45
40 45
100 40
104 40
104 40
120 27
CO2O2
Alveolarepithelial
cells
Pulmonaryarteries
Blood enteringalveolar
capillaries
Blood leavingtissue
capillaries
Blood enteringtissue
capillaries
Blood leaving
alveolar capillaries
CO2O2
Tissue capillaries
Heart
Alveolar capillaries
of lung
<40 >45
Tissue cells
Pulmonaryveins
Systemic arteriesSystemic
veinsO2CO2
O2
CO2
Alveolar spaces
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Loading and unloading of respiratory gases
Hemoglobin• Why use a carrier molecule?
– O2 not soluble enough in H2O for animal needs• blood alone could not provide enough O2 to animal cells • hemocyanin in insects = copper (bluish/greenish)• hemoglobin in vertebrates = iron (reddish)
• Reversibly binds O2
– loading O2 at lungs or gills & unloading at cells
cooperativity
heme group
Cooperativity in Hemoglobin • Binding O2
– binding of O2 to 1st subunit causes shape change to other subunits
• conformational change– increasing attraction to O2
• Releasing O2 – when 1st subunit releases O2,
causes shape change to other subunits
• conformational change– lowers attraction to O2
O2 dissociation curve for hemoglobin
Bohr Shift increase in
temperature lowers affinity of Hb for O2
active muscle produces heat
PO2 (mm Hg)
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140
More O2 delivered to tissues
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Effect of Temperature
Transporting CO2 in blood
Tissue cells
Plasma
CO2 dissolvesin plasma
CO2 combineswith Hb
CO2 + H2O H2CO3
H+ + HCO3–
HCO3–
H2CO3
CO2
Carbonicanhydrase
Cl–
• Dissolved in blood plasma as bicarbonate ion
carbonic acidCO2 + H2O H2CO3
bicarbonateH2CO3 H+
+ HCO3–
carbonic anhydrase
Releasing CO2 from blood at lungs
• Lower CO2 pressure at lungs allows CO2 to diffuse out of blood into lungs
Plasma
Lungs: Alveoli
CO2 dissolvedin plasma
HCO3–Cl–
CO2
H2CO3
H2CO3Hemoglobin + CO2
CO2 + H2O
HCO3 – + H+
Adaptations for pregnancy
• Mother & fetus exchange O2 & CO2 across placental tissue
Why wouldmother’s Hb give up its O2 to baby’s Hb?
Fetal hemoglobin (HbF)
What is the adaptive advantage?
2 alpha & 2 gamma units
• HbF has greater attraction to O2 than Hb– low % O2 by time blood reaches placenta– fetal Hb must be able to bind O2 with greater attraction
than maternal Hb