Question

Lungs in humans and many other species branch out into many tubes until they end in small sacks called alveoli. These alveoli allow oxygen to enter the blood through the capillary beds as pictured above. Alveoli provide much more surface area for the lungs to contact the capillary beds. What is the advantage of lungs with alveoli compared to lungs without alveoli?

Answer 1

Answer:

It provides more surface area for the absorption of oxygen.

Explanation:

The advantage of lungs with alveoli compared to lungs without alveoli is the availability of large surface area for the oxygen absorption. Alveoli allows oxygen from the air to pass into your blood. There are 480 million alveoli are present in human lungs, this large number and small size of alveoli provides lungs a large surface area to volume ratio so we can conclude that the lungs work better with the help of alveoli as instead of lungs without alveoli.