How do you distinguish between arterioles and venules?

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How did you distinguish between arterioles and venules when you observed the vessels in the frog's foot?

The frogÃ?s foot is compromised of thin skin making it ideal to view blood flow. The movement of blood into the capillary bed is monitored by the arterioles and the venules drain it away.

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What connects the arterioles and the venules?

Capillaries are microscopic blood vessels that connect arterioles to venules. These blood vessels facilitate the movement between the blood and the tissues.

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Difference of an arterioles and venules?

arterioles are smaller arteries and venules are small branches of veins

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What type of blood vessel connects arterioles to venules?

Capillaries connect arterioles to venules.

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What structures join the arterioles to the venules?

The capillaries (whish are one cell thick) conect the arterioles to the venules.

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What are the main responsibility of the capillaries?

To exchange oxygen and nutrients between arterioles and venules

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What connects the arterioles and venules?

Forming an intricate network between arterioles and ventricles are the capillaries These aid in the interchange of carbon dioxide.. between tissue cells and blood

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Capillaries carry blood from the?

from the arterioles to the venules

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What are the smallest veins?

Venules are the smallest veins. The venules and arterioles are collectively called capillaries.

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What are skin capillaries?

any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.

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How are arterioles capillaries and venules related?

Arterioles are the small arteries that lead into the capillaries, which connect to cells in the body. Venules are the small veins that the capillaries flow back into, leaving the cells.