Tuesday, November 1, 2016

2.50 understand the need for a transport system in multicellular organisms

 Multicellular organisms have a small surface area to volume ration: the distance for diffusion would be very large and slow, so the organisms have developed transport systems (e.g. circulatory system) that speed up the rate of diffusion to be able to support themselves: get necessary molecules in and out of the body efficiently

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