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The developing embryo will have mitochondria that require the intake of oxygen and the removal of carbon dioxide. How does this exchange of gases occur

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As mitochondria convert O, to water the intracellular 02 tension decreases, thereby generating a gradient for 02 diffusion into the cell from the extracellular space.
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