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Veins: Thin-walled vessels that carry blood to the heart. Units of the circulatory system that carry blood to the heart.

Leaf Veins: Vascular tissue in leaves, arranged in a net-like network (reticulate vennation) in dicots, and running parallel (parallel vennation) to each other in monocots.

Heart: The multicellular, chambered, muscular structure that pumps blood through the circulatory system by alternately contracting and relaxing.

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Vein: A blood vessel that carries blood low in oxygen content from the body back to the heart. The deoxygenated form of hemoglobin (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood makes it appear dark. Veins are . . . View Full Definition

Dendritic Drainage: A stream drainage pattern that resembles the veins of a leaf in map view. Occurs mainly where the rocks below have a uniform resistance to erosion.

Capillaries: Small, thin-walled blood vessels that allow oxygen to diffuse from the blood into the cells and carbon dioxide to diffuse from the cells into the blood.

Circulatory System: One of eleven major body organ systems in animals; transports oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients, and waste products between cells and the respiratory system and carries chemical signals from . . . View Full Definition

Gold (Au): Atomic number: 79, Atomic mass: 196.9655 g.mol -1, Electronegativity ccording to Pauling: 2.4, Density: 19.3 g.cm-3 at 20°C, Melting point: 1062 °C, Boiling point: 2000 °C, Vanderwaals radiu . . . View Full Definition

Dicots: One of the two main types of flowering plants; characterized by having two cotyledons, floral organs arranged in cycles of four or five, and leaves with reticulate veins; include trees (exce . . . View Full Definition