Lesson 20: Compare and

Contrast Process in Plants and

Animals: Transport and
Circulation
Plants have transport systems to move
food, water and minerals around. These
systems use continuous tubes called
xylem and phloem.
Xylem
Xylem vessels are involved in the
movement of water through a plant from
its roots to its leaves. Water:
Is absorbed from the soil through root
hair cells
Is transported through the xylem vessels
up the stem to the leaves
Evaporates from the leaves
(transpiration)
Phloem
Phloem vessels are involved
in translocation. This is the movement of
food substances from the stems to
growing tissues and storage tissues.
TISSUE PROCESS What is moved? Structure

XYLEM Transpiration Moves water and Columns of

minerals from roots to hollow, dead
leaves reinforced cells

PHLOEM Translocation Moves food Columns of

substances from living cells
leaves to rest of plant
 =ANIMAL CIRCULATION=

Types:

Open Circulatory System

Closed Circulatory System

Open Circulatory System
- found in arthropods and mollusks
- means there are no vessels
- hemocoel
Closed Circulatory System
- the blood is enclosed in a highway of
vessels
-  In this type ofsystem, blood is pumped by
a heart through vessels, and does not
normally fill body cavities.
CIRCULATORY PATHWAYS
The blood vessels of the body are
functionally divided into two distinctive
circuits: pulmonary circuit and systemic
circuit. The pump for the pulmonary
circuit, which circulates blood through the
lungs, is the right ventricle. The left
ventricle is the pump for the systemic
circuit, which provides the blood supply
for the tissue cells of the body.
Pulmonary Circulation
-transports oxygen-poor blood from the
right ventricle to the lungs, where blood
picks up a new blood supply. Then it
returns the oxygen-rich blood to the left
atrium.
Systematic Circulation
- is the part of the cardiovascular
system which carries oxygenated blood
away from the heart to the body, and
returns deoxygenated blood back to the
heart.