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The function of the lungs is gas exchange. They take in external air, absorb the oxygen the body needs, and expels the carbon dioxide that the body produces as waste.
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What is the structure and function of the lungs?
It has many balloon-like sacs that can hold air.
What is the function of the ribs in relation to the heart and lungs?
The function of rib cage is to protect delicate organs like heart and lungs
What are the lungs like?
The lungs act a bit like baloons. When you breathe in they will inflate, when you breathe out they will deflate. Using a balloon may be useful way to understand this, breathe into the balloon and it will inflate (this is what happens when you breathe in). Next, leave the air out (slowly) and this is what happens your lungs when you breathe out.
What are the bronchi and what do they do?
bronchi is a tube like structure. It carries air to lungs.
Like a double action balloon pump birds take oxygen into the lungs when they both what an Exhale?
Inhale and exhale.
How does the bronchi and what is its job?
bronchi is tube like structure. It carries air to lungs.
What class of arthropods have book lungs?
Books lungs are lung like organs found in arthropods. They function much like advanced lungs by exchanging atmospheric gases. Pockets of hemolymph pool in the lungs and are saturated by gases.
Analyze how are structure and function related to adaptation?
you need an structure and each part of it has a function like an animal formated or structured by cells and each cell has to adapt to its own function
What is the function of the eye spot in plant like protists?
The eye spot in plant like protists function as a sensory structure.
Is the lungs a muscle?
Lungs are not muscles. They are made up of connective, epithelial, and nervous tissues. The diaphragm is the muscle that contracts and relaxes to expand and relax the chest cavity. Your lungs just fill with air -- which is why they appear to be moving (much like a when a balloon fills with air).
Why are the ribs called rib cage?
Because collectively they enclose the heart and lungs in a cage like structure.
Structure in the lung through which oxygen moves from the air into the blood?
a artery actually move the blood to your lung but th perodic vane helps like a police officer to stop and move the blood
