Need this answer FAST! Here: Compare pulmonary and systemic circulation using key vocabulary terms arteries, veins, and capillaries.
The purpose of OpenStudy is not to provide you with answers - it is to help you work through the problems so you understand them and can answer them yourself. For example, in this case, for a start, the key difference between the pulmonary and systematic circulations is that the pulmonary circulation involves blood flow through the lungs, when blood releases carbon dioxide and takes up oxygen. Whereas the systematic circulation involves blood flow through the body, where the blood gives out oxygen and takes up carbon dioxide. I think the question wants you to interpret that in terms of its implications for the different roles that arteries, veins and capillaries in the two systems...
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