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Regulation of Respiration

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(c)What advantage a terrestrial animal has over an aquatic animal with regard to obtaining oxygen for respiration?

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Air contains about 21% oxygen while water has 1% oxygen in dissolved state. A terrestrial organism is able to get several more times more oxygen than an aquatic animal.
This is the reason that terrestrial organisms have the advantage of getting more oxygen than aquatic organisms.

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