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Describe the mechanisms of ventilation that allow your lungs to exchange gases with the environment.

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The bronchioles in your lungs fill up with air from the environment, O2 from the air is absorbed into the blood and CO2 in the blood is let out, like a swap. Then you exhale out the CO2 (O2 is oxygen, CO2 is carbon dioxide)
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