The Placenta
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The umbilical cord supplies the fetus' oxygen.
the placenta
digestive and respiratory
The lining of the uterus serves as a protection for the growing fetus.
The lungs of the mother breath in the air. The lungs put the oxygen in the red blood cells. The blood flows through the walls of the uterus and through the umbilical cord into the blood stream of the fetus. The venus blood supply returns through a vein in the cord back into the mother and the lungs and the cycle repeats until the cord is cut.
For Plato the answer is provide the fetus with oxygen and nutrients and eliminate carbon dioxide and other wastes from the fetus All the above
The structure that allows blood to bypass a fetus inmmature liver is called ductus venosus.
Yes, carbon dioxide is one of the waste products made by the fetus. It is eliminated through the maternal respiratory system.
Placenta
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.