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Question
How do earthworms breathe?
Solution 1
- There are no lungs and gills.
- They respire through the body surface.
- The surface blood vessel helps in gaseous exchange.
Solution 2
In earthworms, respiration takes place through the body wall by the moist skin diffusion, oxygen diffuses through the skin into the blood while carbon dioxide from the blood diffuses out.
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