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Oxygen from the air is needed in the body for cellular respiration. Oxygen serves as the final electron receptor in the Electron Transport Chain, which produces ATP for the body to use as energy.
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What are the air bags in your body cavity?
The air bags in your body cavity are called your lungs. These are the organs responsible for providing your body with the oxygen needed for survival.
What component of air is needed by all body's cells?
Oxygen is needed by your body cells. You have got almost 20 % oxygen in the air. Rest is almost nitrogen and traces of other gases including carbon bi oxide. Oxygen is necessary for the biological oxidation process in the body. Every living cell of the body needs the same.
What substance is removed from the air by living things for respiration?
In the process of respiration OXYGEN is taken in from the atmoshpere and CO2 is released.
A gas is needed in the body to make energy?
Yes, Oxygen is needed by the body for aerobic cellular respiration. It is possible to use anaerobic respiration which is with out air, but it is must less efficient and produces lactic acid.
What is oxygen content of the body?
the air in his body
What are the place where the oxygen rich air enters the body?
Oxygen rich air enters the body through the lungs.
Why is it so important that the amount of air taken into your body changes as you exercise?
To keep oxygen going to your cells and muscles in the needed amounts.
What does the cells in the body need?
oxygen is needed
What is maxium amount needed in the oxygen body?
VO2 Max is the maximum about of oxygen that is needed by a body, or that the body can take in. By increasing this number, you can run, swim, and do other activities faster.
What gas in the air is needed for something to burn?
Oxygen is needed to feed the flame.
Which gas in the air is needed for a filament to burn?
Oxygen
When we breathe in we inhale many gases present in the air including oxygen what do you think happens to the gases that are not needed by the body?
Nothing - they are "breathed out" with your exhale.
