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What fluid traps Bacteria and dust in the respiratory Tract?
Mucus traps dirt and bacteria.
What traps disease causing bacteria?
Mucus in the respiratory tract traps disease-causing bacteria.
What two places are goblet cells found?
They are found primarily in the large intestine in numerous 'intestinal glands' with abundant goblet cells - they secrete no digestive enzymes but a good deal of mucus. Another offering is that they may be found scattered among the epithelial lining of organs, such as the bronchus and trachea, bronchioles in the respiratory tract; small intestines, and conjunctiva in the upper eyelid.
What traps dust in respiratory system?
mucus!!!!!!mucus trap the dirt in the trachea!
What does mucus do for the air you breathe in?
Mucus helps in trapping pathogenic microorganisms and dust particles and prevent them from entering inside the lungs, second it keep respiratory tract moist so that friction is reduced. Another function of Mucus is to regulate the temprature of the inhaled air.
How does the respiratory system get rid of dust and germs?
It traps it using a filtering system of hair and mucous.
Can plants eat insects?
Venus fly-traps and pitcher plants who has digestive enzymes to engulf insect's nutrition.
Why plants do not need digestive system like humans?
so they can digest everything they eat and drink for example fly traps eat flies but if they didn't have a digestive system they would die from the rot
What part of respiratory system traps the mucos so it can not enter the lungs?
I believe it is the epiglottis, it covers the trachea preventing you from aspirating fluid and such...
Which of the primary bronchi traps foreign object that entered the respiratory passageways?
Foreign objects that enter the respiratory passageways are more likely to become lodged in the right primary (main) bronchus.
How the respiratory system keeps itself going?
The cilia inside the trachea traps the small particles, then it is shot up the trachea to the esephogus to get destroyed by the stomach.
Does bacteria help the respiratory system?
The respiratory system has a number of nonspecific defenses against disease. The hairs of the nose trap dust and pathogens. Mucus in the upper and lower respiratory system traps foreign bodies and pathogens. The cilia constantly move the mucus with this trapped material out of the system. The cough and sneeze reflexes also offer protection.
