Respiration is essential in all living things because it is the process in which the blood is oxygenated, providing the body with activity, energy, movement, growth, and life, while also removing other gases such as carbon dioxide. All living organisms need some form of energy in order to obtain and digest food, which is why it is important that the organism can get oxygen that can then be transformed into ATP, which is usable energy. There are various ways in which an organism can obtain oxygen, and this process is known as gas exchange. Gills, diffusion, and lungs are all examples of what an animal may use in order to take in air.
In the class mammalia, the respiratory system includes the procedure that allows mammals to breathe, obtain energy, then be able to intake food, which supplies as more energy. Without the respiratory system, mammals (and other classes of animals) wouldn’t be able to get a sufficient amount of energy, thus resulting in not being able to get food either, causing the animal to die.
Mammalians usually contain an upper and lower respiratory system, making the structure (anatomy) more complex, resulting in the function (philosophy) relate to achieving the purpose of the system. The upper respiratory system in mammals are responsible for filtering and warming air before it enters the lower system. The upper respiratory system includes the nose, nasal/paranasal cavity, and the pharynx (throat). The nose is the area in which oxygen typically enters the body, through either external nares or the nostrils. The cavities act as walls that are divided by a nasal septum, which allows air to travel in the pharynx. There are three parts to the pharynx, the nasopharynx, the oropharynx, and the oropharynx. The nasoph...
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...ory system perform actions that are similar in both mammals and molluscs, thus resulting in the same end product. Respiration is crucial in the survival of all animals, relating the Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia to the Phylum Mollusca, on a parallel level. Although each animal in these taxonomic groups have varied ways of obtaining the oxygen they use to make energy to get food, both result in the same end product, which provides the animal with life. Whether it be diffusion, gills, or lungs, the purpose of the respiratory system in mammals and molluscs is to deliver the oxygen from their surroundings into their lungs that will then pump the air through the rest of their body, resulting in a usable form of energy which allows them to intake food, thus allowing the survival of that animal, while also disposing of other gases such as carbon dioxide in the process.
The respiratory system is the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide in organisms. The respiratory systems of California sea lions, king cobras, and bald eagles have a few similarities and differences, but they all allow the intake of oxygen for each organism.
Biology 2A03 Lab 4 Respiratory Gas Exchange in a Mouse Lab Manual. Winter Term 2014 (2014). Biology Department. McMaster University.
Indeed, amongst the many disparities between humans and minks, their respiratory systems are very similar for they are both mammals. The metabolic rate is much greater in mammals than any other class of animals, which means the demand for oxygen is greater. Humans and Minks are both endothermic, so they require a more potent respiratory system. Similar to humans the lungs of minks contain millions of alveoli. Alveoli are tiny sacs that are packed together in clusters as if they were grapes. The tiny sacs or alveoli, allows for a greater surface area for the exchange of gases. Another similarity between humans and minks is the air passage. The first stage in air passage is inhalation which is done through the mouth and/or nose. The air then goes past the pharynx to the larynx, through the glottis (opening for the vocal chords), in...
Oxygen breathing lungs are a universal trait of class reptilia. As such, it would have been necessary for the Plesiosauroid - a marine reptile, to return to the ocean surface to inhale air. Oxygen expenditure in reptiles is proportional to strenuosity of locomotion (Frappell, Schultz & Christian, 2002). Therefore the Plesiosauroid must have held physiological traits that enabled the species to avoid oxygen deficit while hunting deep-sea dwelling prey. This essay will outline the hypothesised respiratory, circulatory, pulmonary and sensory attributes of the Plesiosauroid as they relate to diving. These hypotheses will be supported by investigating the physiological adaptations of the Plesiosaur’s biological analogues, and the prospect of similar adaptations in the former will be speculated upon.
The respiratory system has the function of getting rid of carbon dioxide and acquiring oxygen. It works closely with the circulatory system to feed the body the proper amounts of oxygen it needs to function efficiently. The respiratory system of an American Mink is very similar to that of a human in spite of the fact that there are some minor modifications. Both Humans and Minks have two lungs, the right lung is larger and has three lobes and the left lung has two lobes. The reason why the left lun...
The circulatory system and respiratory system share a highly important relationship that is crucial to maintaining the life of an organism. In order for bodily processes to be performed, energy to be created, and homeostasis to be maintained, the exchange of oxygen from the external environment to the intracellular environment is performed by the relationship of these two systems. Starting at the heart, deoxygenated/carbon-dioxide (CO2)-rich blood is moved in through the superior and inferior vena cava into the right atrium, then into the right ventricle when the heart is relaxed. As the heart contracts, the deoxygenated blood is pumped through the pulmonary arteries to capillaries in the lungs. As the organism breathes and intakes oxygenated air, oxygen is exchanged with CO2 in the blood at the capillaries. As the organism breathes out, it expels the CO2 into the external environment. For the blood in the capillaries, it is then moved into pulmonary veins and make
Cellular respiration is a chemical reaction used to create energy for all cells. The chemical formula for cellular respiration is glucose(sugar)+Oxygen=Carbon Dioxide+Water+ATP(energy) or C6H12+6O2=6CO2+6H2O+ energy. So what it is is sugar and
Do you know how you are able to run long distances or lift heavy things? One of the reasons is cellular respiration. Cellular respiration is how your body breaks down the food you’ve eaten into adenosine triphosphate also known as ATP. ATP is the bodies energy its in every cell in the human body. We don’t always need cellular respiration so it is sometimes anaerobic. For example, when we are sleeping or just watching television. When you are doing activities that are intense like lifting weights or running, your cellular respiration becomes aerobic which means you are also using more ATP. Cellular respiration is important in modern science because if we did not know about it, we wouldn’t know how we are able to make ATP when we are doing simple task like that are aerobic or anaerobic.
The human lungs are a pair of large, sponge like organs that are optimised for gas exchange between the blood and oxygen. The human body requires oxygen in order to survive and function. The lungs are responsible for providing vital oxygen while also removing the carbon dioxide before hazardous levels are reached within the body.
It is when much needed oxygen is obtained by the body in order for respiration to take place and the waste CO2 is taken out of the body. In us mammals, the exchange takes place in the lungs which contain a large number of alveoli. These are sponge-like structures in which the diffusion takes place. They are highly adapted to diffuse the gases as they give a large surface area for exchange of the gases.
The Respiratory System 1. Define respiration. Respiration is the process of converting glucose to energy, which goes to every cell in the body. 2. Describe the organs of external respiration.
Introduction: Respiration, commonly known as the inhalation, exhaling or breathing, has a little known definition. This is the definition that involves the cellular level of eukaryotic cells. Cellular respiration may best be described by the following equation: C6h1206+602-6CO2+6H20+36ATP. ATP is the energy needed for a cell to function as part of cellular respiration. ATP is needed to power the cell processes.
The respiratory system of birds is different in both structure and function from the respiratory system of mammals. The avian respiratory system delivers oxygen from the air to the tissues and also removes carbon dioxide. In addition, the respiratory system plays an important role in thermoregulation (maintaining normal body temperature). The avian respiratory system is different from that of other vertebrates, with birds having relatively small lungs plus nine air sacs that play an important role in
According to our text, Campbell Essential Biology with Physiology, 2010, pg. 78. 94. Cellular respiration is stated as “The aerobic harvesting of energy from food molecules; the energy-releasing chemical breakdown of food molecules, such as glucose, and the storage of potential energy in a form that cells can use to perform work; involves glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, the electron transport chain, and chemiosmosis”.
Both systems have important responsibilities and have essential jobs to the human body. The circulatory system is the system that circulates the blood to the rest of the body while the respiratory system is the system that transports the blood to the circulatory system. The circulatory system provides the body with clean blood and transports the bad blood to the lungs to be cleaned of carbon dioxide. The respiratory system cleans the blood in the lungs and transports it back to the heart to be redistributed to the rest of the body. These two systems effectively and efficiently work together in order to supply the body with oxygen and remove carbon dioxide and any other harmful