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inessss [21]
3 years ago
9

How does the structure of alveoli maximize gas exchange?

Biology
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Bumek [7]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

The alveoli are sacks coated on their inner wall by white and sticky liquid, they can be more than a millimeter in diameter and surface active agent. In them there is the exchange of gases between O2 and CO2.

They are evaginations of the epithelium of the air ducts with a single opening for the gases to exit and enter, controlled by the action of a smooth muscle sphincter. Its walls, called alveolar septa, provide a large increase in the exchange surface.

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