Thursday, January 31, 2008

Capter 7 Syllabus

7.1 Animals

7.1.1 Gaseous exchange in mammals
- Processes and structures involved
- Haemoglobin
- Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide
- Partial pressure and Bohr effect
- Oxygen dissociation curves

7.1.2 Breathing Cycle
- Mechanism of breathing control
- Chemoreceptor
- Tidal volume, vital capacity, total lung capacity, inspiratory reserve volume, expiratory reserve volume, residual volume

7.2 Plants

7.2.1 Stomata
- Structure and functions
-Mechanism of stomatal opening and closing based on the starch-sugar hypothesis and K+ ions accumulation hypothesis

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