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Q: When breathing what is operating in your lungs to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen?
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When breathing is operating in your lungs to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen.?

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Why is it not possible to stop breathing voluntarily?

Breathing is the only process where exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occurs. Oxygen is being delivered to the body parts where oxygen is needed, whilst removing carbon dioxide.


Why is not possible to stop breathing voluntarily?

Breathing is the only process where exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occurs. Oxygen is being delivered to the body parts where oxygen is needed, whilst removing carbon dioxide.


What process is breathing out carbon dioxide part of?

Respiration is breathing in and absorbing oxygen, and breathing out carbon dioxide.


Differentiate breathing from respiration?

Breathing: Exchange of gases in and out of the body. Respiration: The process whereby Oxygen changes to Carbon Dioxide, but not all changes.


What would happen if you kept on breathing in carbon dioxide?

There is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. You have been breathing it in all your life.


How are breathing and cellular respiration similar?

Both involve gas exchange by taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. They differ in where the process takes place. In breathing, the exchange takes place in the alveoli of the lungs; in cellular respiration, it takes place in the cells themselves.


What is the dfference between breathing and respiration?

Breathing is the movement of air into and out of the lungs. Respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Oxygen is picked by and carried to the cardiovascular system and taken to the cells. The cells take up the oxygen and release the carbon dioxide back into the CVS and out to the lungs. The lungs take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.


Breathing out carbon dioxide is an example of a life process?

an excretion is an example of breathing out Co2


What causes carbon dioxide?

fossil fuels and breathing causes carbon dioxide :)


What type of process is breathing'?

respitatory, taking oxygen in...and breathing carbon dioxide out. carbon dioxide=Co2 and oxygen = O


What function does the respiratory system has?

The respiratory system is there so you can breath air in and exhale out. When you breath in your breathing in air, but what your really breathing out when you exhale is carbon dioxide. So what your respiratory system does is it takes in clean air and disposes the carbon dioxide from your lungs.