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- Provides nourishment to your baby.
- Eliminates waste from your baby.
- Exchanges respiratory gasses with your baby, allowing it to breathe through you.
- Secretes various hormones such as chorionic gonadotropin, progesterone and estrogens that help regulate and maintain your pregnancy.
- Blocks some (but not all) harmful substances in your body from your baby.
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Why is the placenta like an intestine for the fetus?
because the foetus gets food through placenta
Name 2 ways in which harmful substances can be passed onto the foetus?
To my knowledge there is only one way. Across the placenta and into the foetus. Everything taken into mothers body will pass across the placenta, around the system of the foetus and even returning waste back across the placenta through the magic of Osmosis.
How are nutrients absorbed by the fetus?
The nutrients are absorbed through the placenta by the foetus. The foetus gets the oxygen and nutrition from the mother. The blood of the mother and foetus comes very close to each other in the placenta. Both are not mixed up. They are separated by very thin membrane. The surface area of the contact is very large as compared to the size of placenta.
How does the human foetus get everything it needS?
Through the placenta and umbilical cord.
Why the mass of the placenta increases as the foetus develops?
To hold the growing fetus .
Why the mass of the placenta increases as the foetus develops.?
To hold the growing fetus .
Why does the mass of the placenta increase as the fetus develops?
to hold the foetus thts growing.
What harmful substance can pass through the placenta to the foetus?
Ellicit drugs, alcohol and nicotine.
How are nutrients and oxygen passed to the foetus and waste taken away?
Everything is supplied and filtered by the placenta.
How the smoke travel from the mouth to the developing baby?
Through the placenta via the umbilical cord to the foetus.
What orgon serves as a respiratory digestive organ for the fetus?
You have the organ called as placenta. The foetus gets the oxygen and nutrition from the mother. The blood of the mother and foetus comes very close to each other in the placenta. Both are not mixed up. They are separated by very thin membrane. The surface area of the contact is very large as compared to the size of placenta.
What is the flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant women which nourishes the foetus through the umbilical cord?
Placenta
