Biology

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  • a process in which organisms exchange different gases with the environment is called
  • plants obtain gases they need through

    leaves
  • oxygen is require for
    respiration
  • carbon dioxide is need for
    photosynthesis
  • in gas exchange in aquatic plants what lilypads use?
    leaves that float
  • Mangroves use what in gas exchange
    pneumatophores
  • submerged aquatic plants use____ in gas exchange
    epidermis
  • The earthworms use this in their gas exchange
    skin
  • fishes use this un their gas exchange
    gills
  • terrestial arthopods use blank in their gas exchange
    spiracles
  • this is the tiny air tubes that found in spiracles
    trachea
  • birds use this in gas exchange
    air-sacs
  • terrestial vertebrates use what in their gas exchange
    lungs
  • amphibians use their moist blank in gas exchange
    skin
  • reptiles use what in gas exchange 
    folded lungs
  • mammals use what in their gas exchange
    alveoli
  • Inspiration is breathing
    in
  • Expiration is breathing
    out
  • it contracts and flattens to create a partial vacuum in the lungs when breathing
    diaphragm
  • this is the organ system that involves inhaling of oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide to meet the energy requirements
    human resoiratory system
  • through what water and minerals can enter the plants
    pipe-like vessels
  • Top to bottom transportation of water molecules in one direction
    xylem
  • necessity of food molecules
    phloem
  • it is the organ used to transport nutrients and gas body
    circulatory system
  • the blood is not enclosed in blood vessel but pumped into an open cavity called homocel and is called hemolymph
    Open circulatory system
  • closed loop system, the blood is not free cavity, blood is contained inside blood vessels
    closed circulatory system
  • it is the open cavity
    homocel
  • mixed intervitial tissue

    hemolymph
  • it pumps blood
    heart
  • it carry oxygen high blood

    arteries
  • it carry deoxygenated blood
    veins
  • neearly everything transport media
    blood
  • a mechanism by which food is taken in, and converted into the energy and other essential nutrients
    nutrition
  • organisms that prepare their own food through the process of photosynthesis
    Atotrophic
  • Organisms that can not make their own food and depends on autrotrophs
    Heterotrophic
  • organisms obtain nutrient from dead organic matter

    saprophytic
  • organisms takes food from another organisms, parasite-host
    parasitic
  • this is the essential substances
    nutrients
  • large amount if it is required in our body

    macronutrients
  • it required smaller trace amount in our body
    micronutrients