BIOL 1002 Lecture 33: Chapter 33 Exam

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The process of cellular respiration, which converts the energy in nutrients into. Atp used by cells, requires a steady supply of oxygen and generates carbon dioxide as a waste product. The circulatory system gets oxygen from your lungs, carries it to each cell, and then picks up co2 to be expelled from your body by the lungs. Gas exchange in all organisms ultimately relies on diffusion. Celllular respiration increases co2 levels, creating a concentreation gradient that favors the diffusion of co2 out of cells and the diffusion of o2 into them. For animals w/ well-devolped respiratory systes, gas exchange occurs in the following stages. Air or water moves past a respiratory surface down a pressure gradient; this is usually facilitated by muscular movements, such as breathing. O2 and co2 are exchanged through the respiratory surface by diffusion; o2 diffuse into the capillaries of the circulatory system, and co2 diffuses out.

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