Biology Questions and Answers
The thin skin and the need for living in
moist surrothese animalsunds are typical are. features of
- What are branchiae? What
are examples of animals that
“breath” through branchiae?
Branchiaportions oe, also knowf richly vascularizen as gills, ard tissuese small
internal or external to the body and in
direct contactwater. The gills are organs that mak with the surrounding (^) e
gas exchancrustaceans, fishge in aquatic annelids,es and amphibian (^)
larvae (e.g., tadpoles).
- What is the difference
between gills and lungs?
Gills and lungs are richly vascularized
organs that sbetween the environment and theerve for gas exchange
circulatory system.
The lungs differentiate fthey are saclike structuresrom gills in that always
internal to tin gas exchange in terrestrialhe organism and specialized
environment. Branchiae, in their turn,
are internal or structures in direct contactexternal laminar with wate (^) r
and specialized in gas exchange in
aquatic environment.
- Besides vertebrates two
invertebrate phyla contain
species that make pulmonary
respiration. Which are these
phyla?
Terrestrial molluscsarthropods are the invertebrates that and the arachnid (^)
present pulmonary-like respiration.
Some terrestrial molluscscavity filled with air that makes co have a mantactntle
with richly vascularized tissues that
work as rudimentary ltheir tracheal respiration somungs. Besidese
arachnids have book lungs (thin folds
resembligas exchanng leaves oge. f a book) that make
- What are the three types
of respiration in which the
circulatory system transports
gases?
The circulatoryrole in cutaneous respiration, b system has an importantranchial
respiration and pulmonary respiration.
The respiratory tailored for transpfunction of ortation of gases fthe blood isor
exchange between tissues and
respiratory surexterior (skin, faces in contact with thgills, lungs). e - What are respiratory
pigments? What are some
respiratory pigments and in
which animal groups can each
of them be found?
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