1. The circulatory system or transport system in human beings consists of heart, blood and blood vessels.
2. Heart is a pumping organ to push blood around the body. It receives deoxygenated blood from body organs and pump it to lungs for oxygenation.
3. Heart receives oxygenated blood from lungs and sends it to different body parts.
4. Blood is a fluid connective tissue consists of a fluid medium known as plasma in which white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets are suspended.
5. Blood transports food, carbondioxide and nitrogenous wastes in dissolved form.
6. Red blood cells transports oxygen.
7. Platelets present in blood help in coagulation of blood.
8. Blood pushed by the heart flows in blood vessels called arteries and also comes back to the heart in the blood vessels called veins.
