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How are nutrients absorbed by the fetus?
The nutrients are absorbed through the placenta by the foetus. The foetus gets the oxygen and nutrition from the mother. The blood of the mother and foetus comes very close to each other in the placenta. Both are not mixed up. They are separated by very thin membrane. The surface area of the contact is very large as compared to the size of placenta.
What orgon serves as a respiratory digestive organ for the fetus?
You have the organ called as placenta. The foetus gets the oxygen and nutrition from the mother. The blood of the mother and foetus comes very close to each other in the placenta. Both are not mixed up. They are separated by very thin membrane. The surface area of the contact is very large as compared to the size of placenta.
How does the placenta acts as the lungs for the foetus?
the blood from the mother runs alongside the blood from the foetus ;the mother's blood carries food and oxygen to the baby .The oxygen reachs the lungs and carbon dioxide +waste exits through the umbilical cord . Although they run beside each other they never mix.
What passes from foetus to mother in the placenta?
it's the emberyo because its the blood from the baby is used for the mother so it is very good for a mother to use !
How does oxygen travel from the air to the foetus?
Through the mother's lungs into her bloodstream, then across the placenta and through the umbilical cord to the fetus.
What substance can be passed from the mother to the foetus?
Carbon dioxide and other such waste gases diffuse from the foetus and across the placenta into the mother's blood. Urea (excretory product) also diffuses into the mother's blood. (The substances in bold will answer question).
How is the foetus supplied with oxygen and food in the uterus?
The fetus is supplied with oxygen and nutrients through the placenta, which is connected to the mother's uterine wall. The mother's blood passes through the placenta, allowing oxygen and nutrients to pass from the mother's bloodstream to the fetus. Waste products from the fetus also pass through the placenta into the mother's bloodstream for elimination.
Why is the placenta like an intestine for the fetus?
because the foetus gets food through placenta
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.
How does the foetus get food and oxygen?
The fetus gets food and oxygen through the umbilical cord.
Name 2 ways in which harmful substances can be passed onto the foetus?
To my knowledge there is only one way. Across the placenta and into the foetus. Everything taken into mothers body will pass across the placenta, around the system of the foetus and even returning waste back across the placenta through the magic of Osmosis.
The carbon dioxide produced by a developing fetus is removed by?
The carbon dioxide produced by a developing fetus is removed by the mother's placenta. The placenta facilitates the exchange of gases between the mother and the fetus, allowing the carbon dioxide to be carried away in the mother's bloodstream and eliminated through her own respiratory system.
