(L1) - Breathing and Gas Exchange-Aug 7, 2019
(L1) - Breathing and Gas Exchange-Aug 7, 2019
(L1) - Breathing and Gas Exchange-Aug 7, 2019
Sachin Kapur
M.Phil, Phd
Lecture 1
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Respiration
Respiration
➢ It is exchange of O2 and CO2 between environment and cells of body where organic
nutrients are broken down enzymatically to release energy.
Types of Respiration
Respiration
Direct Indirect
Types of Respiration
Direct Indirect
Body cells exchange gases with There is respiratory surface and blood is
environment without aid of any respiratory involved in transportation of gases
organ and transportation by blood. between respiratory surface and body
Eg. Unicellular organisms, sponges, cells. Organ having the respiratory surface
cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, is called respiratory organ.
insects.
Respiratory structures in different animal groups
➢ Arthropods
○ Prawn, Crayfish — Gills (Branchial respiration)
○ Insects, Centipede, Millipede, Ticks — Trachae, (Tracheal respiration) (No respiratory
pigment)
○ Arachnids (Spiders,Scorpions)— Book lungs
○ King crab (Limulus) — Book gills
Respiratory structures in different animal groups
➢ Molluscs
○ Unio -Ctenidia (gills),
○ Pila — Ctenidia and pulmonary sac
➢ Echinoderms
○ Starfish (tube feet, dermal branchiae)
○ Sea cucumber (cloacal respiratory tree)
➢ Protochordates — Pharyngeal wall
Respiratory structures in different animal groups
➢ Amphibians
○ Frog--Skin (cutaneous respiration), Lining of buccal cavity (Buccopharyngeal
respiration), Lungs (pulmonary respiration), [lungs are poorly developed in frog].
○ Tadpole larva of frog, Necturus, Proteus, Siren, Axolotol larva of American tiger
salamander have external gills.
Respiratory structures in different animal groups
➢ Mammals — Lungs.
○ Even in case of aquatic mammals like Whales, Dolphins lungs are present.
Problems related to water breathing
➢ Water is 800 times denser than air, so great effort is required to move water over
respiratory surface.
➢ Water contains 40 times less oxygen than air.
➢ Oxygen diffuses very slowly through water.
➢ Warmer the water, less oxygen it can hold.
Problems related to air breathing
➢ Structure of respiratory surface depends mainly on size of animal, whether it lives in water
or on land and its metabolic demand.
➢ Endothermal animals (warm blooded) have larger surface area than similar sized
ectotherms.
Special Respiratory Pigments
➢ Haemoglobin (Fe) — Red coloured, present in RBCs in all vertebrates and dissolved in
plasma in annelids.
➢ Haemocyanin (Cu) — Blue coloured, present in plasma, molluscs, crustaceans
➢ Hemerythrin (Fe) — Red coloured, present in corpuscles in some annelids.
➢ Chlorocruorin (Fe) — Green coloured, present in plasma in polychaetes (Sabela, Serpula)
Special Respiratory Pigments
➢ Indirect respiration has two phases i.e., external respiration and internal respiration.
➢ These are preceded by breathing or ventilation.
➢ Breathing or ventilation
○ It’s a mechanical process which brings in fresh air/water into respiratory organ and
takes out foul air/water.
○ It involves exchange of air between respiratory organs and surrounding environment.
Phases of Indirect Respiration
➢ External respiration
○ It involves exchange of respiratory gases between blood and inhaled air/water at
respiratory surface.
○ Blood transport gases.
Phases of Indirect Respiration
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