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How does the fetus obtain food and oxygen?
The mother's blood supply enters the foetus via the umbillical cord and allows oxygen to diffuse from the mother's blood into the foetus.
How does air oxygen enter the mother to feed foetus?
Through the umbilical cord from the placenta since a fetus can't use lungs to obtain oxygen. Read more in the link below about fetal circulation.
Why does a foetus's lungs don't work properly?
The foetus in embedded in fluid called amniotic fluid. Some times the foetus takes a breath in that fluid, just before the delivery. The result is disastrous. If the foetus is born with the fluid in the lungs, it is going to die in most of the cases. The foetus is getting all the oxygen and the nutrition from the mother. This is supplied through the placenta. So the lungs of the foetus are at rest in the womb of the mother.
What does a fetus need?
A growing foetus needs the cord because it gives the food and oxygen from the mother into the babyThe cord feeds the baby and gives the baby oxygen.All foetus's need a cord !
How are nutrients and oxygen passed to the foetus and waste taken away?
Everything is supplied and filtered by the placenta.
How does your body obtain oxygen?
Our body obtain oxygen to our body by breathing.
How does the foetus get food and oxygen?
The fetus gets food and oxygen through the umbilical cord.
Describe how oxygen gets from the air to the cells of the foetus?
Oxygen from the mother's blood diffuses across the placenta into the foetal blood. This oxygen is then carried by red blood cells to the cells of the foetus through the circulatory system. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide occurs at the capillaries, allowing oxygen to reach the foetal cells for cellular respiration.
What is the structure through which crustacean obtain oxygen?
Crustaceans obtain oxygen through gills.
How do they obtain oxygen?
Who is "they" ?
What is the name of the technique used to obtain a small sample of fluid from sac surrounding a foetus so that it can be tested for genetic abnormalities.?
Amniocentesis?
Where do you obtain oxygen from?
you obtain oxygen from your lungs you could breath through your nose and through your mouth
