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gills are like "lungs" to a fish.
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Do hammerhead sharks have lungs?
Sharks do not have lungs, but have between five and seven gill openings.
How many gill slits do sharks have?
5 only two species have more than that six and sevegill sharks have well... 6 and 7 gills
What do six gill sharks eat?
wide range of marine organisims
What is the function of the gill slits?
Gill slits in sharks and rays help to funnel water into the gills, which empty into the pharynx and eventually the lungs.
What is meant by pleurotremata?
An older name of sharks, which means laterally placed gill-slits.
How long to sharks often swim?
sharks have to swim at all times. if they stop moving, no oxygen can pass through its gill slits for the shark to breathe.
How do hammershark breathe gill or lung?
All sharks are fish - therefore, they 'breathe' through gills.
What sharks are native to the Puget Sound?
The bluntnose six-gill shark and certain types of dogfish.
What does jb gill mean in jls?
His name is Jonathan Benjamin Gill.
What does the gill arch so in a fish?
don't you mean: what does the gill arch do in a fish?!
Why is the number of pharyngeal gill slits in sharks fewer than that of other marine fishes?
"Jaws are believed to have evolved from the first pair of gill arches of agnathans. The second pair of gill arches became support structures for the jaws." - Biology Laboratory Manual, Ninth Edition Darrel S. Vodopich and Randy MooreSo, sharks have fewer gill slits because the first two pairs became the jaw and the structural support for the jaw.
Do great white shark have lungs?
No, like all sharks and fish they have gills.
