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Bony fish have many gill filaments because they use them to breathe. They are also used to transfer things like water and ions.
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Through which organ do fish get oxygen?
Those would be the gills. which are composed of many filaments. Gill filaments have rows of thin, vertical lamellae with many capillaries covered by a single layer of cells. Gills are really thin.
How do acquatic animals breath?
If they are a species of fish, they use their gills to get the oxygen out of the surrounding water. If they are aquatic mammals such as whales or dolphins, they breathe with lungs just as we do and have to get to the surface at regular intervals to breathe out and in.
What kind of fishes live by lakes and ponds?
Blue gill, cat fish, sturgen, bass, gar, and many others.
What is the most diverse group of fish?
The largest and most diverse group of fish are the ray-finned fishes. These include many, but to name a few; seahorses, pipefish, puffer-fish and flatfish...etc.
Does a fish drown if you pull it backwards in the water?
Sharks cannot swim backwards. Unlike the fins of telelosts (bony fish), sharks' pectoral fins do not bend upwards, and so they are unable to back up. Sharks are also unable to stop swimming suddenly.
Through which organ do fish get oxygen?
Those would be the gills. which are composed of many filaments. Gill filaments have rows of thin, vertical lamellae with many capillaries covered by a single layer of cells. Gills are really thin.
How many vertebrae does a bony fish have?
fish are are vertebrates
How do fish allows gaseous exchange?
Gills have numerous folds that give them a very large surface area.The rows of gill filaments have many protrusions called gill lamellae. The folds are kept supported and moist by the water that is continually pumped through the mouth and over the gills.
How do sharks get blood to the gills?
Most fish exchange gases using gills on either side of the pharynx (throat). Gills are tissues which consist of cloth and fabric structures called filaments. These filaments have many functions including the transfer of ions and water, as well as the exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide, acids and ammonia.[1][2]Each filament contains a capillary network that provides a large surface area for exchanging oxygen andcarbon dioxide. Fish exchange gases by pulling oxygen-rich water through their mouths and pumping it over their gills. In some fish, capillary blood flows in the opposite direction to the water, causing countercurrent exchange. The gills push the oxygen-poor water out through openings in the sides of the pharynx. Some fish, like sharks and lampreys, possess multiple gill openings. However, bony fish have a single gill opening on each side. This opening is hidden beneath a protective bony cover called an operculum.
How many species are there of bony fish?
24000
How many syllables does bony fish have?
There are 3 syllables. Bon-y fish.
What is thought to have evolved from lungs of early bony fish?
The Osteichthyes is evolved from lungs of early bony fish. The fish have many types of evolved.
What are the features that make the gills of bony fishe efficient gaseous exchange?
Using many structures called gill lamellaes
What is the class name for bony fish?
Bony fish belong to the Class Sarcopterygii (if lobe-finned) and the Class Actinopterygii (if ray-finned). Coelacanths and lungfish are lobefinned and about all other bony fish are ray-finned. The two classes used to be combined as Class Osteichthyes. There are many superorders and orders in the bony fish classes.
Which animals have gill chambers?
Fish are animals that have gills. There are many types of fish, and they can be found in the ocean and in lakes.
Do fish pass gas?
Gas exchange in fish involves the gills. The gills are on either side of a fish's mouth, and they're made up of a curved gill arch attached with a v-shaped double row of gill filaments. These gill filaments have on them little bumps called lamellae and it's in these that gas exchange takes place. The Lamellae are very small, only a few cells wide and have a very thin surface for gases to diffuse through into the capillary network, so oxygen can be circulated around the body to cells. Since there are so many gill filaments and so many lamellae on them the surface area for gas exchange to take place is huge. The disadvantages of gas exchange in fish is that gas exchange occurs underwater. Water has much less oxygen dissolved in it than air, and it has 50% more viscosity so it's more resistant to flow. Bony fish have overcome these problems by adaptions 1) Having a counter current circulation of blood in the lamellae, which means that the water that flows over the lamellae meets the most deoxygenated blood which is flowing in the opposite direction to the water. Oxygen in the water then diffuses into the deoxygenated blood through a concentration gradient. The water moves along the lamellae and loses more oxygen as it goes on. Carbon dioxide is also diffused out of the fish in this way. The deoxygenated blood starts off with plenty of carbon dioxide which it doesn't want, and travels along in the opposite direction to the water coming in. The carbon dioxide then diffuses out of the blood to the water which has a much lower CO2 concentration. Losing more CO2 as it goes on and gaining more O2 so in the end the blood is fully oxygenated. This gas exchange system is extremely efficient for the fish and enables it to extract 80% of the available O2 from water as opposed to humans who can only extract 25% from the air. 2)The water is continuously flowing over the gills in what's called a one-way flow, this means there's no dead space like in human lungs. The other problem with gas exchange under water is that temperature affects the rate of oxygen diffusion greatly. A higher water temperature means less oxygen dissolved, and a lower temperature means more. So fish cannot survive very well in waters of high temperature. Also the gill filaments are supported by the buoyancy of the waters so that water can flow between them, but in air the gill filaments stick together. Counter current flow only occurs in bony fish (eg goldfish, snapper) not in cartilaginous fish (sharks).
What kind of organism has many fins feeding on insects and plants?
Fish. Fish is the organism.
