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What has more oxygen air sacs or blood?
air sacs
Why do pollen grains have air-sacs?
These air sacs make it easier to be carried by the wind
What is the name of the organ that you use to breathe in oxygen?
the air goes into your lungs. In your lungs there are billions of tiny air sacs. Surrounding each air sac is a network of blood capillaries. The air sacs and the blood capillaries are separated by a thin membrane. Across this membrane the air sacs give the blood capillaries oxygen and they blood capillaries give the air sacs carbon dioxide. We breathe out this carbon dioxide!
Which process does not occur in the nasal cavity?
diffusion of air through air sacs
How many air sacs do birds have?
They have seven but some have nine
A disease involving the breakdown of the air sacs in the lungs is?
emphysema
High level chlorine exposures might cause breakdown of the barrier between the alveoli and pulmonary capillaries?
Air sacs; blood vessels that surround the air sacs
Which disease affects the air sacs of the lungs and is common among cigeratte smokers?
emphysema
What are air sacs?
The bronchi continue to divide into smaller and smaller branches until they end in air sacs. The air sacs in the lungs are called alveoli.
What has more oxygen air sacs or blood?
air sacs
What fishes have air sacs and can gulp air?
Labryinth fish have air sacs and can gulp air.
What is the medical term meaning disease in which tiny air sacs in the lungs are destroyed making breathing difficult?
emphysema
What color is your air sacs?
The color of your air sacs are a peach color.
What takes air into the air sacs?
air sacs are in the lungs and when you breathe in blood carries it to the lungs.
Which substances are exehanged between the blood in the capillaries and the air in the air sacs?
Oxygen moves into the capillaries from the air sacs. Carbon dioxide moves out the the capillaries into the air sacs.
Do sharks Have air Sacs?
No, sharks don't have air sacs. Instead they have gills.
Why do lungs have lots of air sacs?
Because the air sacs carry oxygen to the blood!
