Question
What is the difference between pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation?
| Pulmonary circulation | Systemic circulation |
| This involves circulation of blood between the heart and the lungs. | This involves circulation of blood between the heart and body organs (except lungs). |
| It is the function of the right side of the heart | It is the function of the left side of the heart. |
| It carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs to receive oxygen. | It carries oxygenated blood to the body organs. |
| It begins on the right ventricle and ends on left auricle. | It starts at left ventricle and ends at the right auricle. |
| It returns oxygenated blood back to the heart. | It returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart. |
| Blood flows as: Right ventricle > deoxygenated blood > Lungs > oxygenated blood > Left auricle | Blood flows as: Left ventricle > oxygenated blood > Body organs > deoxygenated blood > Right auricle |
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| Column A (Organelle) | Column B (Function) | ||
| 1 | leucoplast | a | help in cell division |
| 2 | nucleus | b | transport of material |
| 3 | ribosomes | c | making food |
| 4 | mitochondria | d | digesting foreign bodies |
| 5 | endoplasmic reticulum | e | storage of starch and proteins |
| 6 | golgi bodies | f | making the cell turgid |
| 7 | chloroplast | g | making proteins |
| 8 | centrosome | h | controlling all the vital activities of a cell |
| 9 | vacuole | i | releasing energy |
| 10 | lysosomes | j | synthesis of cell wall in a plant cell |