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1 Requirements for Gas Exchange moist membrane surface area respiratory medium Air Water

2 Gills

3 Ventilation, which increases the flow of the respiratory medium over the respiratory surface, ensures that there is a strong diffusion gradient between the gill surface and the environment. Crayfish and lobsters have paddlelike appendages that drive a current of water over their gills. Fish gills are ventilated by a current of water that enters the mouth, passes through slits in the pharynx, flows over the gills, and exits the body.

4 Ventilation - gill cover

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6 Terrestrial organisms Gills unsuited for an animal living on land. Air- respiratory medium Advantages of air over water higher concentration of oxygen. O 2 and CO 2 diffuse much faster in air less energy is needed to ventilate Disadvantages of air as a respiratory medium loss of water Terrestrial respiratory surfaces within the body opening to the atmosphere through narrow tubes.

7 Insects - tracheal system Trachea Gas exchange at cell by diffusion across the moist epithelium

8 Lungs Amphibians lungs & skin Reptiles, Birds & Mammals - only lungs

9 Ventilation - (breathing) Inhalation Exhalation Amphibians - Positive pressure

10 Lung Volumes - Residual Volume differences


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