BIOB34H3 Lecture Notes - Lemonade, Desiccation, Ph

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It could be 0. 8% fully saturated but it can get lower than that. If humidity only 30 or 40 percent then there is a gradient that favors water ging into air, which is why dessication is a risk. In ocean bc of salt, water can be drawn out of animal body via osmosis so there is dessiccation risk: not a concern in fresh water. Step 1: ventilation (breathing/ external respiration: process of bringing respiratory medium from environment close to respiratory surface (ex. Step 2: oxygen that is in respiratory medium, to diffuse into blood (pulmonary oxygen diffusion: movement of oxygen across respiratory surface into blood or hemolymph occurs by diffusion, 2 other terms: branchial oxygen diffusion, branchial refers to gill. If talking about aquatic organism, you have bracnhial oxygen diffusion: cutaneous oxygen diffusion, across the skin. Once blood flows into blood it diffuses into mitochondria. Where oxyegn actually gets used and allows ofr release of atp.

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