Arteries and veins are organs but capillaries are not???
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Try google again
Edit: I'm trying to say, a three word search got me your answer 100 times over!
I presume this is homework / bet winning - try harder!
Think about the definition of an organ - and why a capillary would not be included within that, yet veins and arteries would!
Edit: I'm trying to say, a three word search got me your answer 100 times over!
I presume this is homework / bet winning - try harder!
Think about the definition of an organ - and why a capillary would not be included within that, yet veins and arteries would!
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:a.) I do suck at searching
b.) It isn't homework, its extra study (not lying, got resits)
c.) Because they have thicker walls?
Wow, I didn't realise edumacation had taken such a nosedive D:
It's a shame you know what is wrong/right but the exam will be based on incorrect information. I'd let your teacher know, although I bet they'd just be like my old teachers; "If it's in the book it's right"...
Check your definitions of each.
Capillaries have only one type of cell around the lumen. Remember organs are made up of different tissues, tissues of cells.
Something like that. It's been a while since I read up on it.
Edit: I'm assuming you're on about AS Bio Unit 1 or something, I did that a couple years ago. I remember something along those lines. You checked the AQA endorsed Nelson Thornes textbook?
Capillaries have only one type of cell around the lumen. Remember organs are made up of different tissues, tissues of cells.
Something like that. It's been a while since I read up on it.
Edit: I'm assuming you're on about AS Bio Unit 1 or something, I did that a couple years ago. I remember something along those lines. You checked the AQA endorsed Nelson Thornes textbook?
Answer the question correctly, namely that arteries and veins have differentiated cell types such as layers of muscle cells but put an addendum that it is a stupid question based more on semantics than a proper understanding of human physiology.