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Title: Gas Exchange in the Lungs - AQA AS Level Biology
Description: As title describes, concise notes covering Gas Exchange in Leaves under chapter 6 of the kerboodle AS level (new( spec Biology.

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Gas Exchange in the Lungs 
The Usual Factors used by Organisms to speed up Diffusion in Gas Exchange 
­ Short diffusion distance
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­ Large surface area
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 This means oxygen 
only has to pass through two cells to reach a red blood cell, and so a short diffusion pathway 
has been created
...
 This has the effect 
of firstly further reducing the distance between the red blood cells and the oxygen (contributing 
to the short diffusion pathway), but it also slows down the flow of the red blood cells meaning 
that there is more time for oxygen to diffuse into the red blood cells
...
 Firstly, ventilation ensures that new air 
is constantly forced into the alveoli, this air has a much higher concentration of oxygen than is 
found in the capillary or in the deoxygenated red blood cells, and so since humans are 
constantly breathing in and out, there is always far more oxygen within the alveoli than there is 
in the red blood cells or the blood plasma
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The last thing to note is that there are many, many alveoli within the lungs, and many, many 
capillaries surrounding them all
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Title: Gas Exchange in the Lungs - AQA AS Level Biology
Description: As title describes, concise notes covering Gas Exchange in Leaves under chapter 6 of the kerboodle AS level (new( spec Biology.