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What has complex organisms with gills and lungs were major life forms that existed in the?
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The Paleozoic Era
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Devonian period. This period, also known as the Age of Fishes, occurred approximately 419 to 359 million years ago. It was a time when many fish species evolved complex gills for aquatic respiration, while others started developing primitive lungs for breathing air in oxygen-depleted waters.
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What organ do marine organisms have as an adaptation rather than lungs?
Gills.
What fungi forms basidia?
Basidiomycetes, which are the mushrooms that we commonly think of (like those in the grocery store). For example, a mushroom with gills has basidia extending from the hyphae of its gills.
Why is it important for organisms to be able to adapt to changes in abiotic factors?
Abiotic factors play a large role in the adaptations of organisms. This is because climate and things like water can make it hard for organisms to live there. That is why fish have gills.
Do octopus have lungs or gills?
Lobsters have gills.
Do organisms take oxygen from the air and the water?
Yes organisms take oxygen from the air and aquatic organisms take oxygen from the water using their gills. Some do. Most only from one or the other. For example a tuna fish gets pretty much all its oxygen from oxygen dissolved in water. Humans get all our oxygen from the air. Mudskippers get oxygen from both. Yes. Land animals take in oxygen that plants release using their noses. On the other hand, aquatic or marine animals take in oxygen using their gills.
What organisms use gills to breathe?
Fish use gills to breathe underwater.
What do aquatic organisms need to breathe?
gills
What organisms use gills to breathe oxygen?
A fish! Fish are the only animals with gills and most live in water.
What organ do marine organisms have as an adaptation rather than lungs?
Gills.
What organs do freshwater organisms have as an adaptation rather than lungs?
Gills
Why is the feathery nature of gills gives them a very large surface area is important?
Without the large surface are, the gills would have to be much larger and that may have prevented the development of the organisms that use gills.
What kind of adaptations would living organisms need in fast flowing water?
it can breathe in water and it has gills to breathe with
Are blue gills omnivores?
Bluegills are omnivores; they will consume plant material and/or other organisms.
Early amphibians had moist breathing sacs called?
Gills, the larval forms of amphibians still have gills wich drop off eventually at the end of metamorphosis.
Does fish breath with their gills?
Yes. Fish and many other aquatic organisms have gills. The gill is a respiratory organ that extracts dissolved oxygen from water and excretes carbon dioxide.
What are two characteristics shared by gills and lungs?
capture oxygen and send it through the body, and organisms use them
What are the changes organisms undergo when changing from aquatic environment to terrestrial?
they must breathe with lungs instead of gills
