Biology Form 5: Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Transport

1.1The Importance of Having a Transport System in Some

Multicellular Organisms

1. Living organisms need to exchange:-

a) food
b) waste materials
c) gases
2. The volume of the body is great and diffusion is too slow to transport substances.

TSA/V
1. Diffusion of substances can occur if:
a) TSA/V is large.
b) distance between the source of the substances and the cells is small.
c) concentration gradient is high.