gills are like "lungs" to a fish.
Sharks do not have lungs, but have between five and seven gill openings.
5 only two species have more than that six and sevegill sharks have well... 6 and 7 gills
wide range of marine organisims
Gill slits in sharks and rays help to funnel water into the gills, which empty into the pharynx and eventually the lungs.
An older name of sharks, which means laterally placed gill-slits.
sharks have to swim at all times. if they stop moving, no oxygen can pass through its gill slits for the shark to breathe.
All sharks are fish - therefore, they 'breathe' through gills.
The bluntnose six-gill shark and certain types of dogfish.
His name is Jonathan Benjamin Gill.
don't you mean: what does the gill arch do in a fish?!
"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.
No, like all sharks and fish they have gills.